Layoffs at AL.com?

My former Decatur colleague Paul Huggins says 22 were fired statewide. That's more than I'd seen reported initially.

 

Word around the campfire is that NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune has a similar round of cuts coming, but they are waiting until after the 10th anniversary of Katrina (Aug. 29) to do so.

 

Yeah, gotta get the important stuff done first! Sigh.

 

I think the news just got worse at AL.com. There's a facebook post saying the entire sports call center was laid off tonight.

 

As in all the people who handle high school football calls two weeks before high school football starts???

 

Two days.

 

What the... what are they going to do? Handle all the calls from one combined AL.com/NOLA.com site?

This has got me a little worried up in Michigan.

 

It's amazing how quickly the Newhouse papers have gone from the pinnacle of the industry, where everyone wanted to work, straight into the shitter.

 

It's amazing that when the smoke has cleared, Al.com doesn't have a single African American reporter. How does something like that happen in a city such as Birmingham?

 

More cutbacks, fewer journalists

 

So far as I know Gary Estwick still has a job. He is black.

 

In sports or news? Natalie Pierre and Gary Estwick in sports are both black.