Atlanta to cut 80 newsroom jobs

The newspapers that have gone to putting "E-editions" of their product on the net (ads and all included) might have it smart. That might be the way ALL papers go within years (online)...

 

Do less with less means we can expect a writer/editor/designer/blogger to take the place of four (or more) people in a print newsroom. It will probably be like the old days of the wire services in some respects, with breaking stories like recruiting and coach searches being updated repeatedly in that 24-hour news cycle.

Expect travel budgets to be cut accordingly, because covering the actual games won't be as important as commenting on them.

Something to look forward to? Not so much.

 

so journalists will be expected to create opinions on games they don't actually see ... interesting.

tell me what else happens in the year 2000 conan.

 

Shrinking circulation area is something other big regional papers have been doing for at least a decade. The Denver Post used to have its "Rocky Mountain Empire", but sending papers to Sheridan, Wyo. was not cost-effective. So I get that part.
The rest of the AJC's memo strikes me as badly-memorized buzzwords combined to form gibberish. Look at Moddy's list of practical questions. You couldn't find an answer to any of 'em in that statement if you sent it to NSA cryptanalysts at Ft. Meade.
A plan which can't be described in plain English is very likely a poor one.

 

The AJC has been overbloated in staff for a looooong time -- a huge staff putting out a mediocre paper, at best. This move was long overdue IMO. If their folks will now work two-thirds as hard as everyone else in the industry, they'll be fine. Bringing in young, eager faces will definitely help them in the long run.

 

I've been saying this for a while now: In five to 10 years there will only be a Sunday edition (big circulars ... medium-big classifieds). The daily reportage will only be online.

Papers will also have on staff just a few copy editors - "local-style editors" - who will double-check the work of all the copy editors in India so that Yonge Street doesn't get in the paper as Young Street, etc. And maybe a few more copy editors who look over the copy that goes online.

 

Because a 10 percent profit margin isn't a 12 percent profit margin.
Greedy dickheads, one and all.

 

ZING

ZING!

 

The AJC sees the asteroid and is planning accordingly.

Eliminating newsroom, circulation and production positions cuts to the quick, but this patient is terminal and the paper is at least making an effort to adjust to tectonic shifts in news consumption and advertising spending.

 

Hmmmmm. We aren't seeing this in Palm Beach, Austin or even Dayton. This is odd.

If Cox sees an asteroid, why perform a radical experiment on its largest paper, and in a Sun Belt market? Why not experiment first where the stakes are lower, say Waco or Springfield, Ohio?

I would have to figure Babs is right, that Cox is seeing fat and is trimming it.

So much for "Covers Dixie Like The Dew."