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SNIPPET: "In an article in Sunday's Tennessean newspaper of Nashville, Tenn., reporter Bob Smietana made a series of unsupported claims about the nature of the Investigative Project on Terrorism and our work. There's a price that comes with erroneous reporting and we're seeing it register already. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a news release calling for an IRS investigation into our status as a non-profit organization. We believe we can withstand any scrutiny." Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2278/note-to-readers-on-tennessean-story

NASHVILLE The Tennessean in Nashville, the state's largest daily newspaper, has approved buyouts for 24 employees. President and Publisher Ellen Leifeld said the buyouts include eight newsroom staffers. She said the paper, despite its dominant position in the Nashville region, has struggled the same as other metro papers as the industry copes with declining readership and advertising revenue. The Tennessean and its community newspapers employ 870 full-time staffers. Leifeld announced the buyout offer last month. Sixty-six employees requested the buyout, but only 24 were accepted.

How arrogant corporate tools like E.J. Mitchell are destroying your local newspaper—and why Gannett is laughing all the way to the bank by Willy Stern Mr. Craig A. Dubow President and Chief Executive Office Gannett Co. Inc. 7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean, VA 22107 Dear Mr. Dubow: Maybe he would be reluctant to admit it, but if David Halberstam were to graduate from Harvard today, he probably wouldn’t trek down to Nashville to toil at The Tennessean—as he once did—but instead would be thinking about Yale Law School, McKinsey & Co. or Goldman Sachs. Mr. Dubow, journalism today has ceased...