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L.A. Times bloodletting reportedly gets a big one -- Mark Heisler

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by MileHigh, Jul 27, 2011.

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  1. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Sadly it didn't make it when the Sport Dept. made a move out of the main newsroom for temporary digs before moving into the current space.
     
    fishwrapper, Jul 30, 2011
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  2. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Finally heard from my friend/ex-co-worker, who made it. This time. Just Heisler and Crowe from sports were cut, but lots of head scratching over those cuts. Rightfully so. And the feeling is the consolidated desk situation/cookie-cutter pieces-of-crap template pages are just a matter of days from hitting the LAT, which will decimate those desks just like they did the T6 papers.
     
    MileHigh, Jul 30, 2011
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  3. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    Less known here, but Randy Hagihara -- who I got to know as a city editor in Orange County but who wound up downtown, I think -- is also leaving. Hard-boiled, smoking, straight-shooting, old-school newspaper man. I loved the guy, but the business is passing people like that by -- much to the misfortune of the business.
     
    SF_Express, Jul 31, 2011
    #51
  4. CNY

    CNY Member

    Wasn't LA the only Trib paper to renew a full-service deal with AP? So if it took modules, it would be paying for AP but not using it?
     
    CNY, Jul 31, 2011
    #52
  5. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    The smoking part I can understand. It's very non-PC these days and the frequent breaks to step outdoors for a heater can mess with work flow. But what else about that guy should be "passed by" by any legit news operations -- dead trees or digital -- worth its salt?

    Does he refuse to embrace technology? Rail against it? If not, the news organization isn't making the smart move.
     
    Joe Williams, Jul 31, 2011
    #53
  6. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    I think he has just been a good soldier in a big organization, and he's my age, I think (not sure on which side of it) and been there a while, so probably well-paid, the typical confluence of experience, competence -- and expendability for a financially troubled paper.
     
    SF_Express, Jul 31, 2011
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  7. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    Think he's been more on the corporate side of things in recent years -- working in HR, or with the METPro program, or something, if I recall correctly.

    When there's movement of this type, it sometimes has an effect on those types of positions, with either departures or re-shuffling. I remember a previous round of layoffs in which the head of HR was moved back into an editorial position, which I believe she still holds.
     
    WriteThinking, Jul 31, 2011
    #55
  8. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    Pretty sure you're right, WT ... lots of thanks and best wishes from METPRO people on his Facebook page.
     
    SF_Express, Jul 31, 2011
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  9. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    Heisler's goodbye memo:

    http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/141896/heisler-in-32-years-in-the-lat-sports-department-i-saw-it-all/#more-141896
     
    finishthehat, Aug 5, 2011
    #57
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Sports is taking another hit this week with the voluntary buyout/retirement push.

    Soccer writer Grahame L. Jones is leaving.

    And a bit further down, there's rumblings of editor Russ Stanton isn't happy with people.

    Stanton "is reported to have complained openly about loyalty and apparently became quite animated about getting rid of people he doesn't like and the print paper's eclipse in his eye by the web."

    http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/09/daragahi_petruno_jones_la.php
     
    MileHigh, Sep 1, 2011
    #58
  11. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    What in the HELL is going to make up the sports page?
     
    poindexter, Sep 1, 2011
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  12. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Best to Grahame, one of the great people I have been lucky to meet in this business.
     
    Piotr Rasputin, Sep 1, 2011
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