Posted on 01/14/2011 11:36:15 AM PST by abb
Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman is apparently unhappy with advertisers' response to the new four-color paper, and the word inside is that more editorial cutbacks will follow.
Decisions about the cuts are expected to be made today.
New Editor-In-Chief Kevin Convey is said to be prepping key staff reductions in the paper's Washington, DC, bureau that houses five people, including Bureau Chief Thomas DeFrank.
When contacted by Media Ink, DeFrank was noncommital: "I don't talk about internal matters."
Sources tell us DeFrank, with more than a decade at the News and an earlier career at Newsweek, is not in danger but that two or three staffers may be.
Bob Kappstatter, who was the Bronx bureau chief, has already been transferred to "the police shack" covering the NYPD from downtown Manhattan. Sources say it is the first step in dropping edit pages dedicated to Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
Photographers are also said to be worried that their ranks will be thinned.
Calls to Convey were referred to a spokeswoman, who had not returned our calls by presstime.
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Zuckerman voted for Obama.
Everone with a cell phone is a photographer now. The days when some guy with a huge flash camera take pictures of stuff are over.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/14/1980111/observer-building-to-change-ownership.html
Observer building to change ownership
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-13/-desperate-housewives-hold-out-for-pay-raise-in-drama-at-abc.html
‘Desperate Housewives’ Hold Out for Pay Raise at ABC
Their editorials this past week have been downright scary.
Exactly! Too funny!
Hope & Change... how are you lib morons liking it? LOL
You better hurry and pick your “meal dumpster” now, they’re going fast.
Oh stop your sniping! (wait, is that a martial term?)
Hate-monger.
The only real good thing about that paper now is the Sports Section.
Like everything else in NYC these days the news section is just more liberal trash.
Newspapers are so liberal I have to double check the sports scores.
That is why I don’t buy them.
The entire Newsweek company was sold for $1. If Zuckerman plays his cards right, he could get five times that amount for the Daily News.
Consisting of one desk, one telephone and a fax machine connected directly to the Democratic National Committee.
As you probably know, according to this, the Daily News has almost gone broke twice before:
In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune offered the tabloid up for sale.
Maybe in this case, the third time's the charm.
well, if cut-backs are needed, why not just drop one of the four colors...
I know what you mean about buying them, I only access them now on the web - and that’s still a waste of time.
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