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N.Y. Times to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs
Politico ^ | 10/1/14 | DYLAN BYERS

Posted on 10/01/2014 9:54:30 AM PDT by jimbo123

The New York Times has announced that it will eliminate roughly 100 jobs from its newsroom through buyouts and, if need be, layoffs.

The cuts, announced Wednesday by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and chief executive Mark Thompson, are part of the Times' larger effort to stem costs and restructure for a more digital future. The Times has already eliminated at least 230 newsroom positions since 2008, even as it continues to staff up on the digital and development side. The new cutbacks should leave the Times with roughly 1,200 newsroom staff.

“The job losses are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times, but we know that they will be painful both for the individuals affected and for their colleagues,” Sulzberger and Thompson wrote to staff.

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Hopey-changey alert.
1 posted on 10/01/2014 9:54:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Is MoDo learning to say “do you want fries with that?”


2 posted on 10/01/2014 9:55:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; carmenbmw; ...

Who says there’s never any good news?


3 posted on 10/01/2014 9:57:37 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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They voted for this, so let them suffer the consequences.
4 posted on 10/01/2014 9:59:02 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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What the heck? Not enough liberals buying the paper or subscribing to the website to get propaganda???, what the heck???


5 posted on 10/01/2014 10:00:13 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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“””””””The new cutbacks should leave the Times with roughly 1,200 newsroom staff. “”””””

It takes that many people to write propaganda and fiction?


6 posted on 10/01/2014 10:00:48 AM PDT by shelterguy
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I’m shocked to learn they still had a newsroom. I thought it was just one guy copying down everything BamBam said.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 10:01:19 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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in an effort to prevent further global warming/climate change...they should eliminate all of their jobs. It’s for the children.


8 posted on 10/01/2014 10:02:17 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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The thing that continues to amaze me is that they continue to shrink as their revenues and circulation die, but somehow they never manage to go out of business! I mean for how many years can you have your circulation lose double digits and still remain a viable entity?


9 posted on 10/01/2014 10:03:56 AM PDT by vette6387
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Only a matter of time till they start beating the drum to tax the internet and subsidize dead tree newspapers.


10 posted on 10/01/2014 10:04:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Hopey-changey alert.

You, son, are an optimist.
The NYT can no more change its "stripes" (not one single one) than a tiger can.

The Rag has something up its proverbial sleeve.

11 posted on 10/01/2014 10:05:09 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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Looks like Grand Central and Times Square are about to be flooded with a whole new wave of cheap prostitutes.


12 posted on 10/01/2014 10:05:11 AM PDT by IronJack
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I bet they keep the guy who gets the faxed stories from the White House.


13 posted on 10/01/2014 10:06:25 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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Since when did the New York Times EVER have need of a staffed newsroom?
14 posted on 10/01/2014 10:06:33 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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Good, it’s a start. Another 1,200 eliminated from the newsroom staff and we can declare Mission Accomplished.


15 posted on 10/01/2014 10:07:45 AM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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The thing that continues to amaze me is that they continue to shrink as their revenues and circulation die, but somehow they never manage to go out of business! I mean for how many years can you have your circulation lose double digits and still remain a viable entity?

It's my opinion that the Rag is being kept alive by donations from wealthy, visible and invisible Democrats.
That WOULD include Hollyweird.

16 posted on 10/01/2014 10:07:48 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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Why do they need personnel? Most of the news from the NYT is fictive writing anyway.


17 posted on 10/01/2014 10:08:53 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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Why does the NYT even have newsroom editors. All they do is take the talking points from Obama’s press office and put it to print.


18 posted on 10/01/2014 10:09:25 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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Women, children and minorities hardest hit!........................


19 posted on 10/01/2014 10:09:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: House Atreides
Good, it’s a start. Another 1,200 eliminated from the newsroom staff and we can declare Mission Accomplished.

Paul et al: I DON'T believe it.
The people they "let go" will simply be "restructured" to another part of the conspiracy organization.

20 posted on 10/01/2014 10:10:23 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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