Posted on 07/16/2008 8:24:42 AM PDT by abb
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cut its workforce by 8 percent, some 184 jobs, and eliminate its "geographically targeted news sections" as part of a cost-cutting plan the paper announced Wednesday.
"The moves come amid an advertising revenue slump that has ravaged the newspaper industry and has been made worse by rising costs for fuel and newsprint," the paper reported.
The paper reported that "job cuts, which will occur between August and October, will mainly affect the news and advertising departments at the company. They will be accomplished through voluntary buyouts, layoffs and job eliminations." The company currently has about 2,300 full-time employees.
"The daily Gwinnett News section, as well as the weekly NorthSide, CityLife and NorthWest sections — all inserts in the main Journal-Constitution — will disappear starting in August," the story added, noting that "the AJC will maintain news bureaus in Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and North Fulton, adding that the daily newspaper's metro and sports sections will expand to handle coverage from those areas."
The paper stated that: "the cost of producing the separate community sections has become 'prohibitive,' citing a 35-percent jump in newsprint costs over the past year. The AJC last year eliminated similar sections for news in south metro Atlanta counties, and it also has cut the daily paper's circulation area."
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The irony in all of this is the increase in inks, transportation and other energy costs brought about by leftist energy policies is having the left eat their own.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/07/16/ajc_changes.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
AJC announces section changes, staffing cuts
http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13479
Journal-Constitution editor Julia Wallace’s memo to staff
They need to lay off half of the editorial board so they will only be 10 times more liberal than any paper in the South.
LMAO!
I must confess, I saw that somewhere on some thread last night. Can’t recall where and who it was, but the poster referred to reporters as ‘Obama embeds.’
So I can’t take credit, but I’m damn sure gonna use it, LOL!!
And no sign of them realizing why this is happening.
Great news BUMP!
Liberals still buy newspapers. The problem is the environmental policies that these papers support are going to put them out of business.
I wonder, do they think that people will agree to pay more for less?
Occasionally my wife buys a copy of the Sunday New York Times, brings it home and lays it on the table, I suppose out of old habit. I can’t see that she actually reads it, since it just lies around, scattered but unopened, until it goes into the recycle bin. At 5 dollars a pop, it strikes me as an expensive bit of nostalgia from the days when we used to read the newspaper at the breakfast table.
There was an article in the Style Section, which I sometimes get a kick out of, on the new fad for expensive dark glasses. One chic young New Yorker is quoted as saying that she now finds having the right kind of dark glasses is just as important as having plenty of shoes and handbags.
Then, no doubt, she will go to the polls and vote for Obama.
My biggest concern is that history will not ever teach people in the future that the MSM’s death was caused by self inflicted wounds.
They keep their circulation numbers artificially boosted by giveaways and hotel/convention traffic.
Every grocery store you walk into has some poor schmoo trying to persuade you to subscribe by offering all sorts of giveaway trinkets, chances to win a prize, etc.
Can't remember her last name, but her columns make me want to puke.
Just like Cynthia McKinney from Atlanta made me want to puke.
Which these idiots have been throwing in my driveway for free for years. They go straight in the recycling bin. Fire Tucker you dopes. Save that bloated salary, our IQs and you might sell a paper.
Excellent news. Cox owns the rag in my overwhelmingly Republican town. The only question each election cycle is which Democrat the editorial board will endorse in the primaries. It goes without saying that they’ll back the Dem in the general.
They will teach that the internet cause the death. The internet only made it faster.
If I want to read liberal tripe I can get it free in our local Creative Loafing. At least they are up front about being liberal.
If only Cox would dump Cynthia Tucker and Tom Teepen. At least Cynthia Tucker doesn't ooze hate; “Weepin Teepen” buys bile by the barrel.
maybe, Its too late....already.
its really hard to reconciled a very liberal education / outlook,
with reality / the facts.
What about the editions for illegal aliens?
See related thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2046289/posts?page=24#24
Gannett 2Q EPS $1.02 vs $1.56 (Obama PR firm profit down 36% - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Cynthia Tucker will be among the last to go...
In Atlanta - she is one of the few on staff at AJC who can speak and write in passable English...
Most of the staff is still only semi literate — communicating only in Ebonics.
If I owned that paper, Tucker would be a “Diversity Fire”.
You’d have to fire her so there would be any diversity of opinion at the AJC.
Good!
I've never met Tucker.
I actually think that ten percent of the public would pay for a internet subscription (half the rate of a paper product)...and they’d easily accept this format. They could open the daily news to everyone (non-payers)...twenty-four hours later. That might create less cost in production.
Tom Teepen is even more repulsive in person than he is in print.
That’s saying something.
GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A very successful business man, owned a private business in Southern California in the Skunk Works “zone”, building critical components for weapons systems.....under GOVERNMENT CONTRACT...
One day he received an unannounced visitor from some office responsible for implementing Government Contract provisions for ensuring “Equal Opportunity Employment” to verify he was in compliance with the requirement that his employee roster reflected the “diversity” of the area (quota hire target) he drew from for employees. This “official” informed my friend - that he was there to make certain that xx% of his employees were black, and that the XX% was nonnegotiable...
This so infuriated my friend, that he immediately called in his Personnel manager and asked for a racial breakdown on the approx 300 employees. He then did some quick calculations and ordered the manager to fire 11 of the least senior black workers to come into “full and nonnegotiable compliance” with the “regulations”
The government official, who happened to be black started stammering and sputtering and objected to the order -- but my friend reminded him of his "nonnegotiable" position and that he would address this entire meeting and the "official's" rude and impolitic behavior with his superiors...
My friend was not a man to trifle with -- and he didn't suffer fools or need the government contracts to further enrich himself or his company..... He was already a mega millionaire -- many time over.....
I remember when a government monkey from the IRS came into our business, in front of our customers, and said "you owe ME $14,000". Like h*ll I do. It took me almost six weeks to get the IRS to understand I didn't owe them ANYTHING. But, at least, I helped to get the monkey fired in doing so.
I don't think I have ever been that angry in my life or since. I mailed and faxed reams of paper proving that every cent we owed them had been paid in full on time. A waste of our time and money but they didn't care and no we didn't get reimbursed for anything even though they were WRONG.
Our local paper throws unwanted copies in people's yards to inflate their circulation numbers. I called and told them the next time they threw one in my yard I was calling the police for trashing my yard. No more papers.
I can see why! lol!
Yeah, I know it's the New York Times, but they have an excellent, clean website. Get rid of the papers and just go strictly online, and charge a low monthly fee for access.
Call the police and tell them they are trashing your yard. It worked for us! I would dare them to throw a paper in our yard now.
I'm sure they think, oh, there is that 'evil' family who doesn't read our paper. Good, I read news not crap.
The last time I saw him, he looked like the sort of derelict that talks to himself on the street corner. Scraggly beard, long unkempt hair that hadn't been washed or combed in who knows how long.
Looks like he's gained weight though.
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