Chattanooga tries to sneak some out the door

Football_Bat · Mar 25, 2009

Michael_ Gee said:

So, a basically healthy publication is hit by economic circumstances beyond its control and a disastrous expansion plan launched into the teeth of a recession.
That last one is square on the head of the publisher.
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The DOG started its zoned edition in NWA in the mid-90s, for what it's worth. And until recently, it was doing well.

Dr. Van Nostrand · Jan 1, 2015

JackReacher said:

bigbadeagle said:

A quick word about the SE in Chattanooga:

He's a damn good man — and an even better friend — and has looked out after me on more than a few occasions. I haven't talked to Jay in several weeks but will soon.
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I can second that, even though I've never met Jay in person. In the conversations I've had with him, he's been nothing short of great. And I know the people who work for him speak highly of him as well.

The guys (and gals?) in Nooga put out a fine product. It's a shame they're having to cut.
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Let me third the opinion on Jay Greeson. He's REAL good people (to use the SportsJournalists.com vernacular). Letting anyone go under these circumstances has to be killing him.

OtterGrad · Mar 25, 2009

I met Jay very briefly, along with Messrs Tanner and Bush. Extremely talented people, as are all the sports staffers there.

JayFarrar · Mar 25, 2009

Who was the preps writer cut loose?
Know some folks in Chatty as well.

Steak Snabler · Mar 25, 2009

OnTheRiver said:

Moderator1 said:

http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2009/03/24/times-free-press-lets-go-of-its-wang/
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That may be the most unfortunate Internet slug ever.
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Oh, I'm quite sure it was intentional. Oh you BLOGGERS! and your sophomore humor ...

steveu · Mar 25, 2009

Moderator1 said:

Little Rock weighs in:

Advertising at the LR paper is tumbling like a stone. The smaller Arkansas papers in the chain are also shedding advertising.
When Alltel eventually closes down, that means an immediate loss of more than a million dollars in advertising. A couple of the chain stores that have closed, like Goody's, also mean big drops in regular advertising.
Regular advertisers, such as hospitals looking for employees, have dropped advertising all together as they are all either on hiring freezes or laying people off.
The paper has been fighting an ill-advised newspaper war in northwest Arkansas, with a local zoned edition. The war has been more or a less a truce because both media companies are performing so badly.
To gin up some money, in the 18 months or so, the Democrat-Gazette launched two specialty pubs — a free weekly tab aimed to take out the local alt-weekly and a glossy, society magazine that was aimed to take out another publication put out by the weekly business paper.
Both are dramatic money losers.
The paper has a total of around 270 or so between the two newsrooms, and about 50 more working on the different special sections and specialty pubs.
When they laid off 7 people a couple weeks back, the remaining columnists all penned tributes and how the "family" was ripped apart, but that was nothing. The paper could easily shed 50, maybe 70, newsroom employees and the average reader wouldn't even notice.
Worth noting that the paper is still widely read and hasn't had the circ. drops other places have had. Average daily circ. is around 170k, and Sunday jumps up to around 260k.
I think the last ABC audit showed less than a 2 percent drop in average daily circ.
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And that is too bad. For a city the size of LR, the ArDemGaz is a fantastic paper that tries to cover anything and everything Arkansas.

Inky_Wretch · Mar 25, 2009

Moderator1 said:

Little Rock weighs in:

Advertising at the LR paper is tumbling like a stone. The smaller Arkansas papers in the chain are also shedding advertising.
When Alltel eventually closes down, that means an immediate loss of more than a million dollars in advertising. A couple of the chain stores that have closed, like Goody's, also mean big drops in regular advertising.
Regular advertisers, such as hospitals looking for employees, have dropped advertising all together as they are all either on hiring freezes or laying people off.
The paper has been fighting an ill-advised newspaper war in northwest Arkansas, with a local zoned edition. The war has been more or a less a truce because both media companies are performing so badly.
To gin up some money, in the 18 months or so, the Democrat-Gazette launched two specialty pubs — a free weekly tab aimed to take out the local alt-weekly and a glossy, society magazine that was aimed to take out another publication put out by the weekly business paper.
Both are dramatic money losers.
The paper has a total of around 270 or so between the two newsrooms, and about 50 more working on the different special sections and specialty pubs.
When they laid off 7 people a couple weeks back, the remaining columnists all penned tributes and how the "family" was ripped apart, but that was nothing. The paper could easily shed 50, maybe 70, newsroom employees and the average reader wouldn't even notice.
Worth noting that the paper is still widely read and hasn't had the circ. drops other places have had. Average daily circ. is around 170k, and Sunday jumps up to around 260k.
I think the last ABC audit showed less than a 2 percent drop in average daily circ.
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Dillard's, a LR-headquartered department store chain, is close to going belly up.

If that happens the bigger papers in the state will take a serious hit. Dillard's buys full-color half-page or full-page ads on the back of the Sunday A section in the larger papers. Every Sunday.

slappy4428 · Mar 25, 2009

Inky_Wretch said:

Moderator1 said:

Little Rock weighs in:

Advertising at the LR paper is tumbling like a stone. The smaller Arkansas papers in the chain are also shedding advertising.
When Alltel eventually closes down, that means an immediate loss of more than a million dollars in advertising. A couple of the chain stores that have closed, like Goody's, also mean big drops in regular advertising.
Regular advertisers, such as hospitals looking for employees, have dropped advertising all together as they are all either on hiring freezes or laying people off.
The paper has been fighting an ill-advised newspaper war in northwest Arkansas, with a local zoned edition. The war has been more or a less a truce because both media companies are performing so badly.
To gin up some money, in the 18 months or so, the Democrat-Gazette launched two specialty pubs — a free weekly tab aimed to take out the local alt-weekly and a glossy, society magazine that was aimed to take out another publication put out by the weekly business paper.
Both are dramatic money losers.
The paper has a total of around 270 or so between the two newsrooms, and about 50 more working on the different special sections and specialty pubs.
When they laid off 7 people a couple weeks back, the remaining columnists all penned tributes and how the "family" was ripped apart, but that was nothing. The paper could easily shed 50, maybe 70, newsroom employees and the average reader wouldn't even notice.
Worth noting that the paper is still widely read and hasn't had the circ. drops other places have had. Average daily circ. is around 170k, and Sunday jumps up to around 260k.
I think the last ABC audit showed less than a 2 percent drop in average daily circ.
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Dillard's, a LR-headquartered department store chain, is close to going belly up.

If that happens the bigger papers in the state will take a serious hit. Dillard's buys full-color half-page or full-page ads on the back of the Sunday A section in the larger papers. Every Sunday.
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That won't be the only paper hurt if Dillard's goes. They're in much of the southern half of the US.

Drip · Mar 25, 2009

slappy4428 said:

Inky_Wretch said:

Moderator1 said:

Little Rock weighs in:

Advertising at the LR paper is tumbling like a stone. The smaller Arkansas papers in the chain are also shedding advertising.
When Alltel eventually closes down, that means an immediate loss of more than a million dollars in advertising. A couple of the chain stores that have closed, like Goody's, also mean big drops in regular advertising.
Regular advertisers, such as hospitals looking for employees, have dropped advertising all together as they are all either on hiring freezes or laying people off.
The paper has been fighting an ill-advised newspaper war in northwest Arkansas, with a local zoned edition. The war has been more or a less a truce because both media companies are performing so badly.
To gin up some money, in the 18 months or so, the Democrat-Gazette launched two specialty pubs — a free weekly tab aimed to take out the local alt-weekly and a glossy, society magazine that was aimed to take out another publication put out by the weekly business paper.
Both are dramatic money losers.
The paper has a total of around 270 or so between the two newsrooms, and about 50 more working on the different special sections and specialty pubs.
When they laid off 7 people a couple weeks back, the remaining columnists all penned tributes and how the "family" was ripped apart, but that was nothing. The paper could easily shed 50, maybe 70, newsroom employees and the average reader wouldn't even notice.
Worth noting that the paper is still widely read and hasn't had the circ. drops other places have had. Average daily circ. is around 170k, and Sunday jumps up to around 260k.
I think the last ABC audit showed less than a 2 percent drop in average daily circ.
Click to expand...

Dillard's, a LR-headquartered department store chain, is close to going belly up.

If that happens the bigger papers in the state will take a serious hit. Dillard's buys full-color half-page or full-page ads on the back of the Sunday A section in the larger papers. Every Sunday.
Click to expand...

That won't be the only paper hurt if Dillard's goes. They're in much of the southern half of the US.
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Slappy's right. The AJC, The Herald, the Sentinel, man talk about falling dominoes.

deskslave · Mar 25, 2009

Steak Snabler said:

OnTheRiver said:

Moderator1 said:

http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2009/03/24/times-free-press-lets-go-of-its-wang/
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That may be the most unfortunate Internet slug ever.
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Oh, I'm quite sure it was intentional. Oh you BLOGGERS! and your sophomore humor ...
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I'm sure the guy appreciates the 10,000th lame joke about his last name being in a story about his losing his job.

Remember, this is the future!

bigbadeagle · Mar 25, 2009

OtterGrad said:

I met Jay very briefly, along with Messrs Tanner and Bush. Extremely talented people, as are all the sports staffers there.
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Thanks for reminding about the genius that is Ron Bush.
A truly, truly unbelievable person whom I respect like none other in this business.

Football_Bat · Mar 25, 2009

Drip said:

slappy4428 said:

Inky_Wretch said:

Moderator1 said:

Little Rock weighs in:

Advertising at the LR paper is tumbling like a stone. The smaller Arkansas papers in the chain are also shedding advertising.
When Alltel eventually closes down, that means an immediate loss of more than a million dollars in advertising. A couple of the chain stores that have closed, like Goody's, also mean big drops in regular advertising.
Regular advertisers, such as hospitals looking for employees, have dropped advertising all together as they are all either on hiring freezes or laying people off.
The paper has been fighting an ill-advised newspaper war in northwest Arkansas, with a local zoned edition. The war has been more or a less a truce because both media companies are performing so badly.
To gin up some money, in the 18 months or so, the Democrat-Gazette launched two specialty pubs — a free weekly tab aimed to take out the local alt-weekly and a glossy, society magazine that was aimed to take out another publication put out by the weekly business paper.
Both are dramatic money losers.
The paper has a total of around 270 or so between the two newsrooms, and about 50 more working on the different special sections and specialty pubs.
When they laid off 7 people a couple weeks back, the remaining columnists all penned tributes and how the "family" was ripped apart, but that was nothing. The paper could easily shed 50, maybe 70, newsroom employees and the average reader wouldn't even notice.
Worth noting that the paper is still widely read and hasn't had the circ. drops other places have had. Average daily circ. is around 170k, and Sunday jumps up to around 260k.
I think the last ABC audit showed less than a 2 percent drop in average daily circ.
Click to expand...

Dillard's, a LR-headquartered department store chain, is close to going belly up.

If that happens the bigger papers in the state will take a serious hit. Dillard's buys full-color half-page or full-page ads on the back of the Sunday A section in the larger papers. Every Sunday.
Click to expand...

That won't be the only paper hurt if Dillard's goes. They're in much of the southern half of the US.
Click to expand...

Slappy's right. The AJC, The Herald, the Sentinel, man talk about falling dominoes.
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Dillard's is one of the few big chains left that buys display ad space in the paper, which is charged a higher rate than inserts. Take that away and that's a death blow.

Dillard's pulled its advertizing from the original Gazette in 1990 after it published a critical story. That was what brought that paper down.

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