Ventura County Star will now be produced in ...

At this point, would you put it past them?

 

The Scripps Texas papers have one of the worst designs I've seen in a long time. It's really a shame, looks kind of like a crayon box exploded on their page fronts. I bet Ventura ends up looking just as bad.

I would laugh, if this were posted in The Onion, because it would be funny, but sadly it's the truth

 

I've seen worse.

 

I've seen a shit ton better, too.

It's just not a good design.

 

Just heard from a friend in Ventura.
Said a 30-year newspaper career will end with the May layoff. Not going to Texas.

 

That Corpus layout could use another photo to pep up the page.

 

Sadly, all of the papers produced in Corpus will use the same look. According to a friend up in Ventura, even the eastern bloc of newspapers, aside from the Appeal, will take on Corpus' look as well, even though they won't be located in Texas.

 

Got this info from a friend in Ventura this week:

I learned last week that my job at The Star will last a couple of more months. Frankly, I'm not surprised. When the copy desk was informed we were being laid off, our editor thought the date would be in May. Now we will be kept on until late July or August. That's good, but for the copy desk team on the sports staff it also adds a heavier burden to the one we are already carrying. While the news side copy editors are still at full strength, sports is down one person. The Star also laid off our sports editor shortly after the company informed the copy desk of the layoffs and the sports editor also did five desk shifts a week. With three people carrying the load of the sports desk instead of four, that's a heavy burden to carry. Now we have to carry it three more months. We were also informed that only five employees combined from The Star's three West Coast papers opted to go to Corpus Christi. No surprise there.

 

fuckabunchaScripps [/survivorofa2005purge]

 

Look on the bright side. Corpus is the headquarters of Whataburger, and there are like 30 of them in town.

 

One for each Scripps employee, eh?