Tennessean columnist Chavez won't return despite beating cancer

Tennessean columnist Tim Chavez has beaten the cancer that kept his column sidelined for a while -- but the newspaper has done away with his job and instead will use the services of conservative talk show host Phil Valentine, Liz Garrigan says in The Nashville Scene. Also: WKRN-Channel 2 is tilting back toward a more traditional newscrew setup and away from its "video journalist" experiment, and has curtailed some of its blogging.

Addendum, Thursday AM: Blogger Sean Braisted responds on both topics; Mike Byrd at The Enclave sounds off on limitations to Channel 2's political blog.