Todays Is Hartley Miller’s Last Column On 250News
Friday, February 1, 2013 @ 3:44 AM
For many of you, one of your weekly reads is Hartley Miller’s Slap Shots. Today is Hartley’s 404th such column on 250 News , it is also his final column for us.
Tomorrow, Hartley, moves on to what we hope he will find to be, bigger and better fields.
Hartley has been writing his weekly sports column with 250News since we launched the website in May of 2005, so it goes without saying that he will be missed.
At that time, Vista Radio, which is Hartley’s primary employer, was not in the web news business, so they supported his involvement with 250.
But changes in technology and a shift in media mean his employer now finds itself in direct competition with 250News. That put Hartley in a very difficult position. We understand why his employer has requested he focus his talents on their product alone, that’s the nature of the media business and if the roles were reversed, we might have found ourselves making the same request..
We appreciate that Vista radio has allowed Hartley to contribute to 250News over these past 7 and a half years and we appreciate the fact that week in, week out, Hartley provided us with a column. He never took a week off, never missed a deadline. That kind of commitment is hard to find.
He has been a major contributor in making 250News the most read news service in Central and Northern BC. We thank him for that, and we wish him the best as he continues to bring you the sports at CJCI (The Wolf) and FM 94.
I’m Meisner, and that’s one man’s opinion
Comments
Too bad. His was one of the few columns I looked forward to on a weekly basis.
I’m pretty sure his column appears in the Free Press. Unless this decision changes that too, you could catch it there.
All good things are subject to change..it was a creative partnership for all concerned while it lasted..perhaps Ben, Hartley and those folks at Vista can work out something equally as creative for the next seven years
Locally sourced reporting of any genre is hard to come by these days. Great to hear Hartley isn’t leaving town.
Any chance that Opinion 250 can give us a link to his new location just like the CBC links down the side of the main page?
Dang! His column was the one thing I would always make sure I caught up on when returning from vacation!
Anotherside has a great suggestion Opinion 250 … “Any chance that Opinion 250 can give us a link to his new location just like the CBC links down the side of the main page?”.
This would save us from looking for his article elsewhere, and maybe drifting away from here!
Or, for the perpetually lazy, you could google it, find it, and bookmark the site on your own browser.
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