Tough days ahead for Seattle Times?

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They've been bleeding money for years; now that the JOA fight is over (at least for awhile) they're going to have to do something about it if they want to stay in business. The way they spend money is amazing.

 

Well, geez... if that's the case then we're gonna start hearing about hundreds of papers dying off, because this decade is almost over. I think that's too dramatic a scenario.

 

Again, like TSP wrote....

 

UPDATE via E&P:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003694362

For those who don't care to link, the Times will axe 17 positions and let another 50 or so lapse via attrition. So a lot of these jobs going away will be ones that haven't been filled for a long time. The paper will also undergo the shrinkage others have (not space cuts, but the size will be trimmed).

In retrospect, it could be worse, but it still sucks.

 

One of these days a newspaper executive, whose paper consists entirely of AP wire copy, is going to wake up, walk into an empty newsroom and wonder why he didn't follow the old adage of "You have to spend money to make money." Customers are not willing to pay for a dead tree anymore, particularly a dead tree that contains no original, local news.