Sun-Sentinel Cuts

You good?

 

A friend who works at the S-S said the new system with one boss commuting back and forth between two papers is "a complete and total disaster" and that morale there is worse than it's ever been.

 

Sometimes I feel like I'm a pager salesman and the whole media world is just passing by.

 

Tim's a good guy, but no matter how many trips he makes, he's based in Orlando. It's an unwinnable situation for everybody involved. Just like Charlotte-Raleigh. I haven't seen either Fla. paper in several months, but the way they shared entire pages -- with different fonts -- was jarring. I hope at least that has been resolved.

 

Honestly, I get the Sentinels, Sun-Sentinels and Suns confused.
Are the layoffs that triggered this thread from the same paper where, from the Jobs board, they bumped up a guy to a better job and are now going to hire to fill that guy's previous job??

 

Same paper.

 

OK, thanks. Different budget or something? (I used work at a place where they did layoffs as the same time they were landscaping the parking lot -- different budget.)
At our place, we can't get rid of talentless non-producers because they won't be replaced. It's better to have crappy staff than reduced staff.

 

The SS is short a writer, who previously covered high schools and other non-prep sports. The cuts mainly came on the production side instead of content, but it sure does seem strange the paper is advertising for a job while laying off others.

 

I'm with SoCalDude: Paper is, in essence, saying "This job and the person dutifully filling it are now deemed so unimportant we're putting that worker on the street, while happily accepting applications for another low-level job. Good luck!"

 

Copy editors are great if you want quality, but keeping more writers is better if you care about quantity.

 

And that's what's happening everywhere.

 

It often comes down to dollars -- hiring cheaper. Otherwise, the copy editor who was laid off could have moved into that job or some other shifting to avoid a layoff. The mother ship, the Chicago Tribune, did that two years ago after laying people off.