"The Rosenberg problem"

Former Plain Dealer executive editor Doug Clifton testified that he turned "the Rosenberg problem" over to Susan Goldberg, his successor when Clifton retired in 2007.

Rosenberg was removed from the Cleveland Orchestra beat in 2008 over his reviews of orchestra conductor Franz Welser-Mosthad. Don filed a lawsuit that year. He had been covering the orchestra for decades, at the BJ and later at the PD, and authored books about the orchestra.

Assistant Managing Editor Deborah Van Tassel, a former editor at the BJ, also testified.

The trial is in its fourth week.

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