Another good one to Yahoo

[Moderator1]

From the Moddy pipeline:

Adrian Wojnarowski leaving The Record in two weeks for Yahoo.com

 

[21]

'Mommy, what's a newspaper?'

'Oh, gosh, well, it was paper and it came to the door in the morning, and OH! Grandma saved one for you in that big trunk, with the VHS tapes and the funny phone you plug into a wall and the empty bag of processed spinach! Go look!'

 

[GB-Hack]

Guess the side-work for the WWL is done then....

 

[85bears]

'Mommy, what's a newspaper?'

'Oh, gosh, well, it was paper and it came to the door in the morning, and OH! Grandma saved one for you in that big trunk, with the VHS tapes and the funny phone you plug into a wall and the empty bag of processed spinach! Go look!'

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

 

[Armchair_QB]

'Mommy, what's a newspaper?'

'Oh, gosh, well, it was paper and it came to the door in the morning, and OH! Grandma saved one for you in that big trunk, with the VHS tapes and the funny phone you plug into a wall and the empty bag of processed spinach! Go look!'

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

Of course those needless production dollars put food on the tables of pressmen all over the country.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Great hire...

I just hope this isn't a repeat of what happened at Fox Sports a few years back when they lured several top writers away from top jobs only to lay them off two years later...

 

[Bump_Wills]

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

How incredibly naive. You say that as if the print product is somehow a drag on your ability to have meaningful work in the industry. Fact: If the paper version disappeared tomorrow, for most of us, there would quickly be *no* dollars to pour into those pesky production costs you so blithely dismiss.

 

[SF_Express]

Great hire...

I just hope this isn't a repeat of what happened at Fox Sports a few years back when they lured several top writers away from top jobs only to lay them off two years later...

If I'm wrong in five years, Mizzou, you can call me on it. But this is an entirely different environment now.

 

[donnie23]

Dammit. A great voice in the NY-NJ market gone to the national stage ... I'll miss the local perspective on a regular basis. Absolutely a great hire, though ...

 

[Twoback]

'Mommy, what's a newspaper?'

'Oh, gosh, well, it was paper and it came to the door in the morning, and OH! Grandma saved one for you in that big trunk, with the VHS tapes and the funny phone you plug into a wall and the empty bag of processed spinach! Go look!'

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

This is an interesting point, Bears.
But although I know there are backward folk out there, do you have any links to stories or something that suggest there really is a concerted effort toward "sanctity?"

 

[Moland Spring]

Maybe I'm naive about this. I really might be.
But isn't this the dream scenario for all of us? How many more top jobs have been created in the last two years because of the expansion of online sites like these? The Yahoos and CBSSportslines and AOLs are helping, not hurting.
Right? With all the layoffs in newspapers, isn't online where these jobs can (or will) go?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The more jobs created from these websites, the better off all of us are... I'm just a little gunshy because I had a lot of friends at CNN/SI and Fox Sports who were out of work a few years ago...

 

[Baba_Booey]

What do you think The Record will do? Do they have anyone to promote from within?

 

[brettwatson]

My exec. editor predicted today that our newspaper chain will be primarily a digital media company in five years.

 

[ballscribe]

Hadn't read him much. I like the feel of newsprint in my hands when I'm in New York, and the Record isn't in the pile. Been missing out, judging from the 4-5 more recent pieces I just read.

He is gifted. Uses words beautifully without overdoing it like some of those "effin studs" out there who spend a little too much time showing off their vocabularies, and makes his point without going in circles. If he's ripping someone, he has logic to back him up. Good luck to him. I'll definitely look for more.

 

[85bears]

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

Instead, we have people actually fighting - it's unbelievable really - to preserve the "sanctity of the print product." While meanwhile people get laid off every day because of needless dollars poured into production costs.

How incredibly naive. You say that as if the print product is somehow a drag on your ability to have meaningful work in the industry. Fact: If the paper version disappeared tomorrow, for most of us, there would quickly be *no* dollars to pour into those pesky production costs you so blithely dismiss.

Hmmmmm ... not sure you're reading me right here. I don't think the print product should be eliminated. I just don't think they are mutually exclusive like some of the oldsters in the business like to make them. I have worked with guys who roll their eyes when they're told that "We need to get this on the Web."

I guess I just wish that instead of dismissing their Web competition (Rivals.com, Yahoo! now, etc., etc.), more people in power would try to learn from them - we always said newspapers were safe because people can't take a computer in the bathroom. Well now you can. And - this is something we didn't think of, I guess - you can't read a newspaper all day at work without anybody knowing.

 

[Shaggy]

I heard Yahoo pays a big sum, no benefits. Is that true?

 

[pallister]

Wojnarowski's takes on big national events were always good. He's one of the few sports writers I look forward to reading.

 

[kleeda]

What is most frustrating is that newspapers should be figuring out how to capitalize on the Web transition - the world will always need journalists.

The turnaround for newspapers comes online, and it comes when online managers and editors are in charge and the old-guard print managers and editors adapt before their shells are cast aside.

 

[leo1]

Great hire...

I just hope this isn't a repeat of what happened at Fox Sports a few years back when they lured several top writers away from top jobs only to lay them off two years later...

If I'm wrong in five years, Mizzou, you can call me on it. But this is an entirely different environment now.

of course it's a different environment. yahoo! makes tons of money. fox sports and cnn/si were bleeding money. you can be pretty sure that the guys yahoo hired checked this stuff out, too since it's not like they were unaware of what happened five years ago.