BUYOUT ALERT! BUYOUT ALERT! Attn: Florida and Michigan job-seekers

To be fair, sometimes they work, but in industries that are really cyclical, like airlines, or if a company is completely changing its field of endeavor, the way Kodak is all about digital photography now, or DuPont switching to biochemistry.
So if a newspaper were to cut half its workforce because it was going totally on-line, it might well grow back employees if the idea worked.

 

Oh my yes.

 

From what I understand, the Ft. Lauderdale paper was one of the most stagnant within Morris. I worked at a Morris paper where circulation and sales were actually growing. During a Morris publisher's conference, an executive actually pointed to the stats from my last paper and said, "This shouldn't be happening."

 

spup, plenty of newspapers in Florida are growing like gangbusters.

 

profit-wise, anyway.

 

My paper wasn't in Florida. It was just a Morris paper.

 

Huh??????????

 

I scratched my head, too.

What a depressing thought: that Morris could own the Sun-Sentinel.

 

I'm sorry. I was talking about the Times-Union. I must have been high when I posted Ft. Lauderdale. My apologies.

 

The mistake is completely understandable, spup.

Tribune, which owns the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, is mismanaging things fine on their own, thanks.