Next up: LA Times

Per Poynter, but this one starts upstairs:
Tronc purges senior leadership at the Los Angeles Times

 

Might be a whole bunch of Tribune-, er, tronc-wide things shaking.

Hockey writer in Fort Lauderdale was laid off today.

 

I've got to say, usually you try and get the people heading out the door to do the laying off - and that has to be the least BS corporate-talk story about a changing of the guard at a newspaper I've ever read.
It's never fun writing a story about a new top editor coming in because you KNOW it might be the only story he or she reads of yours ever.

 

The outdoors writer (a 27-year veteran of the paper) was shown the door last month, as was the assistant sports editor in charge of high schools (about four weeks before the first HS football games). Publisher says the paper's workforce will be cut 50 percent over the next three years if revenue trends continue.

 

A paper that once had more than 50 people in its sports department alone.

 

My God, you're not kidding. Those late 1990s and early-mid 2000s Sun-Sentinel papers were mind-boggling. The sports section was fantastic.

 

Levinsohn will hold an all-hands meeting at 3 p.m. with Kirk to discuss the future of the newsroom, he said in a memo to staffers Monday.

What I wouldn't have given to have sat in that meeting with all the L.A. Times staffers.

 

There was a Sunday sports section in October 1997 that was 180 columns, spanning three sections (World Series, College Football and regular Sports). The equivalent of 30 open pages. And I didn't have a thing to do with it (was working on the Heat preview section).

 

The tronc digital transformation touted so highly in that cheesy, unintentionally funny video must be hitting a few speed bumps.

I see that one of the "co-stars" of that video recently left tronc. And the other, based "business of journalism" stories and my acquaintances with tronc newspapers, no longer wields much influence. She's still collecting her hefty paycheck, at least for now.

 

So they fired a reporter who was married to an ousted editor for no other reason than the marriage. They also fired Magaraj's admin aide. That's cold.

Reporter Jill Leovy and admin assistant also let go by LA Times

 

Was a lot of fun to be in Miami for the 2003 opener on a spring trip... S-S and the Herald were fairly big papers every day (except Monday, but no big whoop) and Palm Beach was pretty good too. Those were the days.