It's not at all accurate to compare the San Diego job to the Sentinel job from a financial perspective. Even if the Sentinel hires someone with zero experience (highly doubtful), the upward arc at the Sentinel is way better, I can say with certainty, than it is in San Diege. After four years of...
The Journal is a Guild paper. Salaries start at 800 per week and go up to 1100 something per week. Oh, the laziness on this board. No where near the salary for the San Diegeo paper.
http://www.milwaukeenewsguild.org/guild-contract/#article-18
What irritates me the most about Sam Zell is that he has yet to take responsibility for putting the a $13 billion company at risk with the foolish deal he engineered in the first place. Anything the guy says about changing the culture of the business or about redesigning the papers is purely a...