{"id":412431,"date":"2026-08-21T01:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412431\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:58:18","slug":"will-someone-please-save-poor-helpless-lakewood-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412431\/","title":{"rendered":"Will someone please save poor helpless Lakewood Landing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a class=\"o-heading__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/micropost\/at-last-the-dallas-morning-news-commits-to-hiring-a-new-restaurant-critic\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> The Dallas Morning News commits to hiring a new restaurant critic. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than four years, the DMN will publish restaurant reviews again. Sometime. We\u2019re not sure when.<\/p>\n<p>This news is buried in a job posting for the DMN\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com\/hcmUI\/CandidateExperience\/en\/sites\/CX_15001\/job\/2027159?keyword=editor&amp;logged_in=true&amp;mode=location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Food Editor<\/a>. The News is currently down to just two food reporters, Sarah Blaskovich and Imelda Garc\u00eda, but the listing for the new editor says they will also supervise \u201ca restaurant critic and a food digital producer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is great news. It\u2019s been a shame that the DMN food desk has been down to 50 percent staff since reporter Claire Ballor and food editor Anna Butler left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/micropost\/now-would-be-an-even-better-time-for-the-dallas-morning-news-to-hire-a-restaurna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">early this spring<\/a>. But it\u2019s arguably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/food-drink\/2025\/09\/its-time-for-the-dallas-morning-news-to-review-restaurants-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">even more of a travesty<\/a> that the DMN hasn\u2019t employed a full-time restaurant critic since the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, the DMN ran a handful of freelance restaurant reviews labeled \u201crestaurant columns.\u201d (I wrote them.) The last such \u201ccolumn\u201d was published in April 2022. As I wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/food-drink\/2025\/09\/its-time-for-the-dallas-morning-news-to-review-restaurants-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">column last year<\/a> urging the News to return to the format, \u201cReviews start conversations, push for higher standards, and show us who we are through what we eat. In a media environment full of influencers and clickbait, investing in a good critic means believing that you can succeed through expertise, not search rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Hearst listened to my advice. When the DMN hires its critic, the new person will join a Hearst critical stable that includes Bao Ong in Houston, Mike Sutter in San Antonio, Matthew Odam in Austin, and Mackenzie Chung Fegan in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, one more tidbit from the food editor job listing: \u201cIn our newsroom, you will use AI.\u201d The listing provides examples: headline ideas, copy editing, creating video and social media versions of stories, and \u201chuman-verified\u201d data processing. The DMN also mentions a \u201cstrategic content partnership\u201d with OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"o-source\">Source: <a class=\"o-link o-source__link\" href=\"https:\/\/eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com\/hcmUI\/CandidateExperience\/en\/sites\/CX_15001\/job\/2027159?keyword=editor&amp;logged_in=true&amp;mode=location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"> Food Editor \u2013 Dallas Morning News Careers <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Morning News commits to hiring a new restaurant critic. 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