AJC section changes/staffing cuts - INTERESTING UPDATE 8/26

This may have been covered, but I heard that some AJC editors were canned for leaking future plans. Including a redesign of the paper and some major changes in what and how they cover things.

 

I have friends there who say things are just about as bad as it can get.

 

The number of metro papers I aspire to work for continues to shrink by the day. It's a sad state of affairs.

 

Congratulations to Steve on the move.

Sounds like things are pretty discombobulated at the AJC.

 

Like Barsuk, it makes me sad as well.
A job at the AJC to me a few years back would have been like winning the lottery.
Makes me really wonder how jobs will be viewed in the future. Will the more mid-size papers, where you have some more stability, be viewed as the better job. As opposed to the larger circulation prestige papers where you no longer have that stability.

 

Aw, they'll get that stability back. But by then, a lot of them will seem like mid-size papers, because they'll be heavily covering preps and colleges and (grudgingly) whatever pro beats exist in their particular market. I'm guessing there will be continued travel cutbacks, too -- y'know, skipping random single-game trips in NBA/NHL, maybe stringing a few MLB series where there is an available and reliable stringer and the airfares are pricey. (Think NFL travel is safe because of the sport's massive popularity and the once-a-week road schedule).

So Triple-A markets will feel like Double-A, and big league markets (except for the national papers) will feel like Triple-A. Eventually, though, they will have run off enough people that they actually will replace the next person who leaves.

Unless, of course, the entire paper in that given market goes under first.

 

I've always used the baseball minors-to-major analogy as well, and while I'm glad to play for a perennial playoff contender, I would regret the phasing out of solid Double-A departments as I make my inevitable (and looked-forward-to) way back down.

 

Wyche is good people. Did well in some TV work during the NFL draft this spring.