Death of a newsroom

Cascade Public Media capitulates to federal budget cuts

We come not to praise the newsroom formerly known as Crosscut, but to curse its executioners.

As Erica C. Barnett first reported yesterday over at PubliCola, the public-television suits at Cascade Public Media, which is mostly Seattle PBS station KCTS, are getting out of the long-form news business and cutting more than 15 jobs. That effectively ends the…