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Station manager Bill Lord will take over operations. The Post notes that the move comes just three months after Jim Brady, who oversaw TBD.com’s creation, left the site saying he had strategy disagreements with top managers. || Steve Buttry: “Yes, we have some internal changes. We’ll continue as [a] local news site — with no staff cuts.” || Jim Brady: “The ‘everything will be OK’ tweet does not reflect how people feel. …Not good news.”
> Wemple: “I would imagine our head count, if anything, would go up”
> Potts: Without Brady, the end of TBD was probably inevitable
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