Executive SE, Los Angeles Newspaper Group

One more thing... if this job pays $100K a year, you aren't talking a great deal for living in southern California.

 

It's an interesting job on its face, but if it doesn't pay $100K -- in fact, if it doesn't pay a good amount OVER $100K -- then it's not worth the stress and workload that's going to be involved.

 

It won't pay $100,000. Bank on that.

 

<<<There's no need to travel between any of the sister papers. Everything runs from the Woodland Hills (Daily News) office. All the coordination is done via inter-office messaging/e-mail/phone calls and semi-regular meetings with the other sports editors. >>>


this is exactly what is wrong with newspapers these days.

 

to clarify: each of the sister papers has its own editor who coordinates the local coverage. the SE for LANG coordinates the major beats (UCLA, USC, Dodgers, Lakers) and all the sister papers run the same stories for those.

 

Isn't Lean Dean doing the same thing with his Bay Area papers?

 

Singleton was probably the guy who started the whole "clustering" craze when he ran some dailies for Joe Allbritton in the 1970s, although certainly Gannett already practiced this in New York State and Copley had a cluster outside Chicago and there already was a small Bay Area cluster going when Singleton bought it in the mid-1980s. But very early in his tenure as an owner, he had clusters going in New Jersey, northern Ohio and Northern California and was able to suck profit out of underperforming and/or dying dailies by slashing staff and sharing resources. Other companies noticed.

The L.A. area cluster keeps growing because Dean keeps adding papers, but it's worth noting the flagship Daily News has lost about a quarter of its M-F circ under his ownership. It's down to 151K M-F, 170K Sunday and 136K Saturday, according to September 2006 ABC audit reports. Long Beach has fallen almost as badly, to about 88K. Almost everyone in the newspaper business has taken a hit to some degree, but these are significant slides that are masked by his continual acquisitions.

 

The circulation drop shouldn't be a surprise, since they cut everything - salaries, people, and space in the paper. There simply isn't much newspaper.

 

Anyone hear of any candidates?