DFM latest to drop the axe

[Mr. X]

Are we entering a new quarter? Will we see big-time cuts at all major news outlet chains?

New quarter begins July 1.

 

[HanSenSE]

Three newsroom layoffs, one retirement last week in the Bay Area News Group, per Reliable Sources newsletter. Retirement was long-time East Bay sports writer Gary Peterson.

 

[Readallover]

The Trentonian has a no-layoffs clause good for one year in its March 2020 contract. It's sports dept will feed all Philly cluster papers as those papers get whacked.

 

[Fredrick]

New quarter begins July 1.

What will happen when the new quarter begins? Layoffs galore or ?

 

[MileHigh]

Ask the suits.

 

[Matt Stephens]

 

[Readallover]

It undermines us when the fired editorial writer for The Trentonian continues to write a weekly column for no pay for five years

 

[MTM]

It undermines us when the fired editorial writer for The Trentonian continues to write a weekly column for no pay.

I was at a DFM where some people who were laid off immediately began freelancing. I understood their need to make some money, but felt it diminished the value of what we did as staffers if they were willing to do basically the same job for less money and no benefits.

 

[ChrisLong]

The SoCal group has its Lakers writer in the Orlando bubble. If the $55,000 fee by the NBA is correct, that is a decent chunk of change the group had to come up with.

 

[JosephDHippolito]

The SoCal group has its Lakers writer in the Orlando bubble. If the $55,000 fee by the NBA is correct, that is a decent chunk of change the group had to come up with.

So newspapers now have to pay to get access. I don't care if we are in a pandemic. That policy will undermine independent journalism now and in the future. Just look at ESPN's pseudo coverage of the NBA.

 

[MileHigh]

So newspapers now have to pay to get access. I don't care if we are in a pandemic. That policy will undermine independent journalism now and in the future. Just look at ESPN's pseudo coverage of the NBA.

It includes room, three meals a day and testing.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I was at a DFM where some people who were laid off immediately began freelancing. I understood their need to make some money, but felt it diminished the value of what we did as staffers if they were willing to do basically the same job for less money and no benefits.

I refuse to contribute one byte to a paper that decides I'm not worth working for it. Luckily that's only happened one time so far.

 

[DanOregon]

Presidential campaigns bill newspapers for seats on press busses, planes and meals - the newspapers insist on it.

 

[Slacker]

I was at a DFM where some people who were laid off immediately began freelancing. I understood their need to make some money, but felt it diminished the value of what we did as staffers if they were willing to do basically the same job for less money and no benefits.

Who gets the blame for that? Not the layoff freelancers.

Whose job is it to make everyone feel valued?

 

[User 150927]

Who gets the blame for that? Not the layoff freelancers.

Whose job is it to make everyone feel valued?

I was at a DFM where some people who were laid off immediately began freelancing. I understood their need to make some money, but felt it diminished the value of what we did as staffers if they were willing to do basically the same job for less money and no benefits.

Not everyone has a choice.

However, after many years freelancing I've chosen to retire rather than continue with the particular company in my area. I feel like it's the right thing, but who among us can criticize those who must continue because of finances?

 

[Readallover]

Not everyone has a choice.

However, after many years freelancing I've chosen to retire rather than continue with the particular company in my area. I feel like it's the right thing, but who among us can criticize those who must continue because of finances?

But what when the fired person continues to produce content for their former employer because of his/her ego? You know, the need to have his/her opinions heard.

 

[User 150927]

How often does that happen? I've been in this industry for 35 years and I've never witnessed a person who I know do that. And I've witnessed plenty of lose their jobs.

 

[PaperDoll]

I was at a DFM where some people who were laid off immediately began freelancing. I understood their need to make some money, but felt it diminished the value of what we did as staffers if they were willing to do basically the same job for less money and no benefits.

Some media companies' severance agreements prohibited freelancing for prior employers until after those payments ran out.

Some of my former colleagues took our institutional knowledge to the competition, which hurt. But non-compete agreements are difficult to enforce -- and it's not anyone else's business how they pay their bills.

 

[sgreenwell]

Some media companies' severance agreements prohibited freelancing for prior employers until after those payments ran out.

Some of my former colleagues took our institutional knowledge to the competition, which hurt. But non-compete agreements are difficult to enforce -- and it's not anyone else's business how they pay their bills.

The one Gatehouse made me sign said I couldn't freelance or apply for jobs for their publications for two years, which struck me as excessive. Of course, I pretty much had zero interest in working for them again anyway.