Another One Bites The Dust: San Diego Union-Tribune Shuts DC Bureau

The San Diego Union-Tribune’s 64-year-old Washington D.C. bureau will close later this year as all of its four remaining reporters leave the newspaper.

“There’s no getting around the fact that it’s sad, not a good development,” said George E. Condon Jr., who’s been the bureau chief for 24 years. “It’s not good for our democracy or our readers to not have that kind of coverage. You’d get no dissent on this from the editors.