Many Gannett newspapers now rate employee performances using similar systems.
Works Well with Others
"Anyone with even a whiff of disagreement with Giles ended up getting handed his head," says Meyers, the former Nieman fellow who writes for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Giles's critics cite as examples a number of incidents in which he and editors under his direct supervision demoted key personnel at their whim.
Phil Hand, who was the metro editor at Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, says he was relieved of his post and sent to work in the composing room after complaining that the management was putting too many demands on his department.
He says he was taken out to dinner by Giles and the managing editor, and shortly after was demoted.
"It was a very demeaning thing," Hand says. "After close to 30 years in the business, I ended up going to the composing room, where the newest kid on the copy desk taught me my job."
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