Alison Gerber

Others recalled him yelling profanities and telling a colleague, I could kill you.

On The Kicker this week, Megan Greenwell hears from Alison Gerber, who is the editor of the Times Free Press and became one of the people who was let go amid the chaos.

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Welcome to The Kicker.

I'm your host, Megan Greenwell.

Today, my guest is Alison Gerber.

For 23 years until a month ago, she was the top editor at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the local newspaper in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

And then she was forced out of her job in what has become kind of a classic story of a new buyer coming in and wiping out a huge percentage of the staff.