By: Joe Strupp Chris Jennewein, the former Internet chief at the San Diego Union-Tribune who lost his job last week, told E&P his departure was "amicable." He offered no ill will toward his former employers.
Jennewein did, however, blast reports on a local alternative Web site about his departure that described the Union-Tribune's online radio programming as "disastrous."
"I think that blog report was puzzling and inaccurate," Jennewein, the former vice president of Internet sites, said late Sunday from his home. "The format of the talk radio station changed in April, but the project continues."
Jennewein, 53, who left the paper last week after seven years, was referring to SignOn Radio, the online radio format he launched in 2006 with a music channel, and later expanded to talk and news last fall. San Diego Reader, in first reporting that he had left the paper last week, referred to the radio project as "the disastrous online radio experiment that is now winding down."
Jennewein declined to comment on the specifics of his departure to E&P, saying only: "The Union-Tribune is consolidating print and Web operations and my departure was amicable. The Union-Tribune is a great company. I am grateful for all the opportunities they gave me."
Jennewein also declined to comment on reports that his departure was the result of conflicts with Editor Karin Winner.
He had no future plans decided as of yet: "I am using this as an opportunity to look at both newspapers and new media ventures."
On Friday, the Union-Tribune finally acknowledged Jennewein's leaving in a statement about Web and print reorganization that read: "among the changes is the consolidation of strategy, product development and Internet sites under the leadership of Mark Davis, currently vice president of strategy. This change results in having to say goodbye to Chris Jennewein, vice president of Internet sites."
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