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Houston Chronicle offering buyouts

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SnoopyBoy, Sep 5, 2008.

  1. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    There will be unfilled positions in Beaumont, but none in sports.
     
  2. SlickWillie71

    SlickWillie71 Member

    Looks like the hammer fell in H-Town today. Some very talented people got clipped. Don't know about sports, but I think they lost some desk help.
     
  3. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    FYI. Beaumont also recently cut 17, laying off the press crew and outsourcing it to Houston. Great for deadlines.
     
  4. Aurelio

    Aurelio Member

    Over-under on the last printed newspaper in America?

    I've got seven years, but it's a weekly.
     
  5. SlickWillie71

    SlickWillie71 Member

    I'm betting it won't be the one we're talking about here.

    Word is that they're handing over their Texas A&M coverage to the San Antonio Express-News. The beat guy's reward? Moved to desk.

    Heck of a job, indeed.
     
  6. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    That actually is a logical move that should've been made a few years ago.
     
  7. budcrew08

    budcrew08 Active Member

    Nope. Over. Small papers (dailies with < circ 15K) will stay, if for nothing else than to keep town/city/village government honest and to run all the "Oh look, Johnny Turdfucker's at Siena College!" briefs.
     
  8. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    So the beat guy got moved to the desk. At least he still has a job.
     
  9. Some Guy

    Some Guy Active Member

    I hate the move. It makes the Chronicle look small-time not to cover the giant Division-I University down the road ... especially when Houston probably has one of the biggest bases of A&M-exes in the state.

    More than that, a paper based in San Antonio isn't going to cover the team the same way a paper based in Houston will. Tne local angles are different.

    I guess in this day and age, it's anything to save a buck, and maybe the cost-reduction is worth the trade-off here. I just think it sucks and it's sad.
     
  10. SlickWillie71

    SlickWillie71 Member

    Makes no sense. Then again, nothing does in this field these days.
     
  11. batts

    batts Member

    E-N guy, Brent Zwerneman, lives in College Station. He's the one who broke the story on Fran's secret newsletter last year, so the Chron won't suffer using his copy.
     
  12. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    Terrence Harris got moved to desk?
     
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