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Fran Curci said:
Were there layoffs in recent days at another DFM property?
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I don't know. I know DFM has been a seller recently.

I don't see the Los Angles or San Francisco clusters. How much local content is still being produced at those two properties? My sense, based upon very little factual data, would be that the Los Angles group is really hurting. It is my guess that the Northern California group would be doing better. But this is based upon a few random observations.
 
Seriously don't know. Maybe the paper tanked? Used to work there part time in sports in 89-90, was an excellent tabloid paper back then. I don't follow the newspaper biz too closely lately.
 
Carlkolchak said:
Seriously don't know. Maybe the paper tanked? Used to work there part time in sports in 89-90, was an excellent tabloid paper back then. I don't follow the newspaper biz too closely lately.
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Do the Times Herald next.

It's in Dallas.
 
I think the NY Post is the best to read, just an all around good, diverse, entertaining read, visually pleasing. But the fact that it loses millions every year is pathetic.
 
Carlkolchak said:
Oh I get it. You're trying to mock me. Nice try tough guy. You must be really tough!
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Hey man, you're on a journalists' message board and you asked if a folded paper was still around. Don't be taken aback if someone mocks you for that. Several former Rocky staffers post here, as do former staffers of virtually every shuttered paper from the last 30 years.
 
What would be the best tabloid left in the United States? I loved the Chicago Sun-Times of the 70's. But it is now a shell. I have always heard that Newsday was top-notch but have rarely seen it. I don't see the Post or the Daily News enough to make a judgement.
 
BUMP ...

The Rocky Mountain Highs and Ignominious Lows of a Local Sports Section

But Blevins is the kind of reporter who made The Post’s sports section unique. After joining the paper in 1997, he covered 18 X Games and treated the competitors like real athletes, not sideshow acts. The Post’s Broncos writers filled the sports section with football jargon. Blevins told his editors that the paper that calls itself “The Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire” ought to do the same for winter sports. “I’m not going to explain what a triple cork 1260 is every time,” he told me.
Blevins occasionally got frustrated when stories about the glove Peyton Manning was wearing out-trafficked everything else in the paper. But at this year’s Winter Olympics, his expertise paid off. Blevins noticed a woman doing a trick-less run down the halfpipe. Sources on the team told him she was Elizabeth Swaney, the freestyle skier who had gone shopping for a country to represent. Blevins quickly turned out a profile that became one of The Post’s great traffic monsters.
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Darned good read. Get to the very end.

This sentence just left me shaking my head. Oh, the good old days:

Once, during a run as Post sports editor, Paige asked everyone in the department for their professional wishes and granted them all.
 
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