Austin American-Statesman staffers get bonus

From Romanesko:

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174899

Congrats and I'm envious.

 

I'm doubly envious. They get a bonus AND live in Austin.

 

I heard they took their paper off the market too. Not a bad day to be in Austin.

 

I remember when my paper switched from a $50 gift card to the local grocery store to a $25 gift card.
Amazing that 10 years later, that remains the largest Christmas bonus I've received.

 

cox communications is still the only company i ever got a christmas bonus from. i was at my paper for four days and i still got one in 2007. then a full one in 2008, of course they laid me off two months later...

 

Merely a ripple in the dirty pool of newspapers nationwide.

 

The bonus I got when I was making $6.50 an hour at a small-town roofing company was 10 times larger than the largest bonus I've ever gotten at my newspaper, which is owned by a multi-billiion-dollar corporation.

 

Good for them. It's nice to hear positive news in this industry from time to time.

 

They must be doing something right in Austin. Anyone know what it is? And would it work elsewhere?

 

The major companies would rather follow the slash and burn tactics that work so well, and have created a legion of happily employed journalists than do what Austin does.

 

Most of Texas, and Austin in particular, are weathering the recession better than most other areas.

 

Some really good people put out the sports section in Austin. Glad they'll be enjoying a merrier Christmas.