KWMU Radio General Manager Patty Wente was relieved of her management responsibilities on Monday afternoon. The Chancellor of the University of Missouri St. Louis, Tom George,informed the staff of the decision about five o'clock and was accompanied to the station by two university attorney's where he met with employees.
In the meantime, the station reportedly will continue to function as usual until a permanent GM can be hired. George told employees the General Manager at sister station KBIA in Columbia, Mike Dunn, will take the job in an interim role. KBIA plays predominantly classical music, but he is not expected to change the all news/talk format that has been successful at KWMU.
Wente apparently is not yet willing to talk to reporters about the development.
If you would like to read the UMSL media release you can see it by clicking here.
The St. Louis print media played the story as you would have expected. The Riverfront Times which broke the story of the original investigation, splashed the development on it's web site and made reference to it's initial story in saying Wente had been "fired". (The link is below this in my original post).
The St. Louis-Post Dispatch buried the story in it's entertainment section. The logic for this probably being the Post didn't want to admit the weekly "Alternative" newspaper kicked it's butt journalistically with the original feature. And the St. Louis TV stations were out in the cold until they saw it in print.
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