About ‘Staff Reports’

The Niagara Reporter has been back for four issues now, but as a shell of itself.

It calls itself “Niagara Action” and lists Kristy Mazurek as publisher.

I don’t know her. I remember Mazurek, first as a WGRZ news personality and later as a political operative affiliated with Erie County Democrats.

Funding appears to be coming from Buffalo Biodiesel, at least as judged by the front-page ad and the bylines assigned to Sumit Majumdar.

The most recent 32-page edition includes 56 “Staff Reports”. That is Gazette-speak for “we can’t hire real journalists or we hide our convicted, disbarred sex offender who can’t post his own name and hates Dante Richardson.”

It will be fascinating to see how long the bankroll lasts or if there starts being a ton of pro-NFR anti Centennial Park copy.