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Gannett buying The Dallas Morning News?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by FileNotFound, Sep 25, 2016.

  1. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    The article said 12 staffers got fired. How big was St. Cloud? That is a lot more than a two percent cut. Did other papers suffer as badly?
     
  2. Monday Morning Sportswriter

    Monday Morning Sportswriter Well-Known Member

    When they start ousting the top editors, you know they're running out of ways to cut. Battle Creek and Poughkeepsie both had their longtime editors canned. Stu Shinske in Poughkeepsie was as loyal a Gannett guy as I've ever known, and all that bought him was unemployment.
     
  3. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    Apparently Sioux Falls is now down to 2 sports reporters.
     
  4. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Wait a sec. So the Newsroom of the Future concept also is a failure?
     
  5. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    No, the newsroom of the future has always been a far-off bullpen staffed by inexpensive twenty-somethings.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Not much different than the Local Information Centers of yore.
     
  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    They still have humans in toll booths?
     
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  8. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    A few. For us Neanderthals who still use cash (and don't have exact change).
     
  9. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Full disclosure: I interviewed in a design studio (Louisville) and my experience was completely different than those on here. The design center director put me up in a hotel in downtown Louisville... the interview was all day and included lunch. The director was so laid back it was almost like having informal conversations all day with him and with his assistant. Later that evening I went to a sports bar on the northeast end of Louisville's suburbs and who should walk in but him and his wife. I laughed when I came up because he saw me and I said "There are a thousand sports bars in Louisville and you came to this one?"

    I thought I was going to get an offer, but I didn't. He did call my writing eye-catching and my sports knowledge vast, which I've used in cover letters to this day. As it turns out, our former sports editor in Saginaw now works at the studio, so he keeps an eye out for me.
     
  10. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    The control freak sounds like the guy that was pushing me hard to make the move in three days. His assistant was a guy I worked with at another paper. Think he's still there, though he dropped all contact after I turned them down. No big loss.

    I've always thought the control freak waited too long to fill out his start-up staff, then had to make a bunch of hires by the end of the week. I didn't want any part of an operation led like that.
     
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    If so (not doubting Smal Town Guy, of course), that's a shocker. Always thought sports was one of that paper's strengths.
     
  12. bevo

    bevo Member

    Well, that said, the studios are an order of magnitude better place to work than the individual Gannett papers.
     
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