Paper Cuts (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

PaperCuts ^ | July 20, 2008 | Staff

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Layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers

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This is a site that has chronicled all the layoffs and buyouts at US newspapers for 2007 and 2008. This is a must have reference tool for all of us who are on the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ list.

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http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/layoffs-contd-fort-myers-slashes-36.html

Friday, July 18, 2008
Layoffs cont’d.: Fort Myers paper slashes 36 jobs
Either the jobs cuts are accelerating, or my readers are getting better at sending me tips. This just in from Florida’s Gulf Coast:

Comparing the local economy to the 1929 stock crash, Publisher Carol Hudler said today that The News-Press would shrink to staffing levels last seen in 1995-2000. “Sadly,” she said in a memo, “we’re losing some good people with this workforce reduction. It is very painful, but it’s necessary.”

Hudler’s memo suggests the job cuts will be outright layoffs — rather than buyouts. If true, the News-Press would be at least the second GCI paper this week to take that more draconian route. That’s more evidence that Gannett Chief Financial Officer Gracia “The Knife’’ Martore has been redlining budgets.

Corporate says the News-Press has 650 employees. Hudler said the paper would “share resources’’ with other Florida papers, and “embrace new processes and technologies to help us accomplish more in our workday.”

[gunnedah]

Maybe the Democrats under President Oh-Bama will bail them out with something like the “Un-Fairness Doctrine.”

[STONEWALLS]

“Maybe the Democrats under President Oh-Bama will bail them out with something like the “Un-Fairness Doctrine.”

.....it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the Dems try to subsidise liberal papers...notice the map...east coast/west coast papers hardest hit...the Heartland is doing better...it’s still what’s left of anglo-european/judeo-christian America.

[Steely Tom]

Maybe the Democrats under President Oh-Bama will bail them out with something like the “Un-Fairness Doctrine.”

Sure. They'll be calling the First Amendment an "unfunded mandate."

[Chode]

[ronnie raygun]

WHEN YOU BUY THIER PRODUCT YOU KEEP THIER PROPAGANDA MACHINE GOING. WE ARE THE OIL THAT DRIVES THEIR MACHINE.

[Doctor Raoul]

Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

[Doctor Raoul]

Comparing the local economy to the 1929 stock crash, Publisher Carol Hudler said today...

Lie to your readers and you WILL go out of business.

[gunnedah]

They have no sense of fairness and yet we still let them drain us dry. It is time to take America back from these scalawags.