Friday's roundup

[RickStain]

Here's what I came up with from various sources:

Today's roundup:
American Society of Newspaper Editors cancels its annual convention, says it can't justify asking people to spend the money
Boston Herald cuts 20 jobs
Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger announced it is offering buyouts, but not how many they expect to accept
The daily newspaper in Portage La Praire, Manitoba is cutting out its monday edition and firing the entire pressroom.
Wilmington, N.C. daily paper will printing its own paper and lay off the entire pressroom
Times-Union of Albany, N.Y. announced unspecified number of layoffs, but will cut operating budget "20%" through these layoffs, so guess maybe 20% of 453 employees.
Memphis' daily newspaper announced 18 layoffs
Providence (RI) Journal laid off 74
Buffalo (NY) news announces laying off 52

 

[jps]

ugh

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Forgot one:

:-\ :'(

 

[pseudo]

Big one to miss.

Got a source on the Buffalo News number? The buyout deadline isn't until March 6.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

If these numbers hold up, that's 256 jobs. :-\

 

[RickStain]

http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=64536&provider=gnews

I guess that's just a "may have to layoff 52," but I've never known a 'may' to not pan out.

 

[Bubbler]

Terre Haute fired its publisher on Thursday.

 

[pseudo]

Thanks for the link, Rick. That's what I get for not watching the local news tonight. I knew there was a big meeting with the Guild officers coming up, but was pretty sure they hadn't had time to act on it yet.

(Of course, Scripps just showed us that it only takes 12 hours to kill a newspaper ...)

But last I knew, they have a no-layoff clause. Wonder how that works?

 

[zeke12]

Someone should Twitter this ****!

 

[thestatman]

Just heard today that two small 3,000 circulation Media General newspapers, the Reidsville Review and Eden Daily News (both located in Rockingham County, N.C.), are being shrunk from 5 days a week to two days a week at the end of March.

Which makes this news all the more heartwarming since the cuts take place after the mandatory four furlough days in March that MG is requiring its employees to take. Sounds like some are going to get royally screwed, especially if layoffs follow since fewer people will be needed to produce the product.

I shutter to think what could be next.

 

[pseudo]

Just heard today that two small 3,000 circulation Media General newspapers, the Reidsville Review and Eden Daily News (both located in Rockingham County, N.C.), are being shrunk from 5 days a week to two days a week at the end of March.

Which makes this news all the more heartwarming since the cuts take place after the mandatory four furlough days in March that MG is requiring its employees to take. Sounds like some are going to get royally screwed, especially if layoffs follow since fewer people will be needed to produce the product.

I shutter to think what could be next.

That was no typo, was it?

 

[BYH]

Someone should Twitter this ****!

It's going to save the ****ing industry! that's what they've told us! And they never lie.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Just heard today that two small 3,000 circulation Media General newspapers, the Reidsville Review and Eden Daily News (both located in Rockingham County, N.C.), are being shrunk from 5 days a week to two days a week at the end of March.

Which makes this news all the more heartwarming since the cuts take place after the mandatory four furlough days in March that MG is requiring its employees to take. Sounds like some are going to get royally screwed, especially if layoffs follow since fewer people will be needed to produce the product.

I shutter to think what could be next.

That was no typo, was it?

Maybe he's a photog

Someone should Twitter this ****!

It's going to save the ****ing industry! that's what they've told us! And they never lie.

Who do you mean by they? Newspaper Execs? Bloggers? Pundits?

 

[zeke12]

Charlatans who act like the content's the problem to cover for their bosses who just want to dump costs, pump out an imitation of a newspaper for as long as they can and then dump the whole ****ing thing and buy into something else.

 

[thestatman]

Just heard today that two small 3,000 circulation Media General newspapers, the Reidsville Review and Eden Daily News (both located in Rockingham County, N.C.), are being shrunk from 5 days a week to two days a week at the end of March.

Which makes this news all the more heartwarming since the cuts take place after the mandatory four furlough days in March that MG is requiring its employees to take. Sounds like some are going to get royally screwed, especially if layoffs follow since fewer people will be needed to produce the product.

I shutter to think what could be next.

That was no typo, was it?

Maybe he's a photog

Nope, not a photog... shutter as a verb means "to close or close down." Which, in hindsight, works just fine with how all these jobs and papers are going recently.

Guess I should have used quiver or some other gripping verb. Sorry, but driving 160 miles, writing a gamer on deadline, then driving back within a five hour stretch kind of kills my grammar skills... just a tad.

 

[pseudo]

Nope, I agree, shutter worked just fine. Unfortunately. I figured it was either intentional or a Freudian slip.

 

[thestatman]

Nope, I agree, shutter worked just fine. Unfortunately. I figured it was either intentional or a Freudian slip.

Would have loved for that to have been a Freudian slip, but I can't take credit for that.

 

[Football_Bat]

You only write about us when we lay people off!

 

[thestatman]

You only write about us when we lay people off!

I assume that was directed towards me... considering I've been in the business since July, that's really all I know (Yeah, I know, should have picked a different profession). I read most of the threads to gain knowledge of what is going on in the industry, but I really can't comment because in hindsight, I still don't have much to add. Just so happens, I had something to add to this one that wasn't on there.

 

[pseudo]

Dude. Chill. "You only write about us ..." is a long-running meme here.

As is, "Fetch me a beer, newbie."
Sounds like you could use one too.