Staff sizes?

flexmaster33 · Mar 17, 2011

StaggerLee said:

Sadly, we're down to three full-timers (one preps, one SE, one mid-major university beat writer) and one part-timer (purely an office guy, mainly agate). Wish I could say we're servicing a small community newspaper, but we're at a 45K circ paper located in a college city surrounded by 40-something high schools within a 30-mile radius.

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StaggerLee said:

Sadly, we're down to three full-timers (one preps, one SE, one mid-major university beat writer) and one part-timer (purely an office guy, mainly agate). Wish I could say we're servicing a small community newspaper, but we're at a 45K circ paper located in a college city surrounded by 40-something high schools within a 30-mile radius.
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RickStain · Mar 17, 2011

8k

Editor, designer, 2.5 news reporters (one part time), sports editor.

BrianGriffin · Mar 17, 2011

StaggerLee said:

Probably a more interesting thread would be, what's your staff size now and what was your staff size five years ago? I'd imagine in the last five years, our staffs have all taken a tremendous hit.

For example, at our place, we had six full-timers (SE, ASE, two prep writers, one college beat writer, one general assignment) and four part-timers (two rotating agate guys and two general assignment/desk).
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When I came aboard almost two years ago, we were at 16, plus an online SE, which is a separate department. Three left, one was replaced. So 14, plus the online SE now.

Staff still seems large compared to papers with comparable circulation figures. That's both something to brag about and to be concerned about. You are happy that you have a big staff, but you also wait for the other shoe to drop.

Justin Biebler · Mar 17, 2011

StaggerLee said:

Probably a more interesting thread would be, what's your staff size now and what was your staff size five years ago? I'd imagine in the last five years, our staffs have all taken a tremendous hit.

For example, at our place, we had six full-timers (SE, ASE, two prep writers, one college beat writer, one general assignment) and four part-timers (two rotating agate guys and two general assignment/desk).
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Actually, our staff has stayed the same over the past decade or so. Our newsroom hasn't had any layoffs (knock on wood) and things seem to have turned the corner ad wise for us.

Clerk Typist · Mar 18, 2011

HandsomeHarley said:

Small 6-day daily.

Publisher
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Obit Editor
Reporter
Photographer
Internet/Online editor

I'm the only one who can do everyone else's job.
Nobody -- and I mean NOBODY -- wants to do sports, though the Online Ed does when I'm (rarely) away.
The Online Ed also is the No. 2 reporter.
I'm the "unofficial" assistant managing editor, which basically means that the publisher or I fill in for ME when she's away. I also copy edit and change and clean up the front from Quark to Indesign (because ME doesn't want to learn Indesign).

Needless to say, when more than one person is out, the place goes to hell. And nobody has had a raise at least since I've been here, and I'm told many years before that.
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Obit editor on a staff that small? Where are you, The Villages, Fla.?

Mark2010 · Mar 18, 2011

Seven-day 20,000 AM. Sports editor, two full-timers, one almost full-timer who doesn't paginate. No agate clerk, occasional stringer help.

Not too bad when everyone's humming along full speed, but when anyone gets sick, takes vacation or whatever, then you really feel the pinch.

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