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[HanSenSE]

Doesn't appear to be a d_b.
New York Post Publisher Tells Staff That Business Is ‘Drastically Disrupted’ by Coronavirus, Announces Layoffs

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

George Willis and Kevin Kernan lost their jobs in sports. That's half a century, minimum, of column-writing experience. Terrible.

 

[Fredrick]

Yet they are hiring consultants in Australia . Nice waste of money. Such a pity when people allegedly are reading more than ever online that the ads have dried up. Newspapers just cant win. Now the online is doing better but no advertisers want to advertise online. Just kill the damn industry and show the suits and former readers alike how important the reporters and editors were through the years to society. The newspapers haven't helped by the way. Every one I've read has taken the position we need to stay locked in as a society. Real smart position, suits. Being locked in means no businesses are open and means absolutely no ads. Big LOL to the suits.

 

[Songbird]

These rags should just suckle from Uncle Sam's PPP ... everybody's doing it.

With Little Hesitation, Struggling News Outlets Accept Federal Aid

 

[The Big Ragu]

George Willis and Kevin Kernan lost their jobs in sports. That's half a century, minimum, of column-writing experience. Terrible.

Jesus. That isn't space you fill with a couple of 20-somethings with a little writing experience.

When the Daily News stopped competing, it created enough of a void. The Post was kind of holding up still, in no small part because Willis and Kernan understand the audience and they crank out readable stuff like it's a bodily function.

That leaves who, Joel Sherman, Cannizzaro for football, Davidoff for Yankees and Vaccaro for a little bit of everything? Did they all survive?

 

[Woody Long]

Jesus. That isn't space you fill with a couple of 20-somethings with a little writing experience.

When the Daily News stopped competing, it created enough of a void. The Post was kind of holding up still, in no small part because Willis and Kernan understand the audience and they crank out readable stuff like it's a bodily function.

That leaves who, Joel Sherman, Cannizzaro for football, Davidoff for Yankees and Vaccaro for a little bit of everything? Did they all survive?

I heard nine layoffs in sports, so who knows... haven't seen anything on social media from any of those guys aside from Kernan, who didn't mention anything that may have happened.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Doesn't appear to be a d_b.
New York Post Publisher Tells Staff That Business Is ‘Drastically Disrupted’ by Coronavirus, Announces Layoffs

Best of luck to anyone laid off at the New York Post. The Post, however, is an outlier among American papers. My understanding of the business model of the Post was to sell a lot of papers to morning commuters. The number of commuters has declined and there are now smart phones so the business model has collapsed, just as it did for the Daily News.

But the scariest part of the story, if you are a journalist, is that NewsCorp stopped printing 60 papers in Australia. I have no idea if these were weeklies or dailies or basically zoned editions. But that has to be a huge chunk of the journalism jobs in a country of 26,000,000 people.

Is it a precursor of what is going to happen in the U.S.?

 

[PaperDoll]

I heard nine layoffs in sports, so who knows... haven't seen anything on social media from any of those guys aside from Kernan, who didn't mention anything that may have happened.

Brian Lewis, the Nets/NBA guy, Tweeted April 24 that he's on furlough and Marc Berman is handling both the Knicks and Nets.

 

[Fredrick]

Is it a precursor of what is going to happen in the U.S.?

Yes. The print product may not have more than a few weeks/months left. It will be all online for news with a couple reporters and maybe one editor per organization.

 

[SixToe]

Jesus. That isn't space you fill with a couple of 20-somethings with a little writing experience.

But, you know there's a Suit or three who will say exactly that and never flinch. It's happened everywhere. Decades of experience, insight, connections, the recognition of the name by the readers. We see it all the time.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Yes. The print product may not have more than a few weeks/months left. It will be all online for news with a couple reporters and maybe one editor per organization.

Do you ever shut the **** up?

 

[Readallover]

I thought print would make it to decade's end but that was prior to Covid-19 and ads falling off the cliff. I think print can last to mid-decade, following some more mergers to create two big newspaper chains.

 

[BTExpress]

I was absolutely expecting my company to ditch print after the election and Black Friday (or cut to a couple days a week, which may as well be the same thing). And that was before the pandemic.

 

[Danwriter]

His newspapers are a major part of Rupert's power over politicians. (And Fox News, of course.) He'll keep what he needs around as long as he needs it.

 

[britwrit]

Yet they are hiring consultants in Australia . Nice waste of money. Such a pity when people allegedly are reading more than ever online that the ads have dried up. Newspapers just cant win. Now the online is doing better but no advertisers want to advertise online. Just kill the damn industry and show the suits and former readers alike how important the reporters and editors were through the years to society. The newspapers haven't helped by the way. Every one I've read has taken the position we need to stay locked in as a society. Real smart position, suits. Being locked in means no businesses are open and means absolutely no ads. Big LOL to the suits.

Seriously, it's time for more places to start charging. $10 to $15 a month is nothing.

 

[Severian]

Is anyone part of the former Postie newsletter? Apparently there are 1,200 people on it, and I'd be curious to know how to get on it.

 

[Tarheel316]

I was absolutely expecting my company to ditch print after the election and Black Friday (or cut to a couple days a week, which may as well be the same thing). And that was before the pandemic.

Are you still expecting that?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Seriously, it's time for more places to start charging. $10 to $15 a month is nothing.

You'd be out of business in a month.

 

[BTExpress]

Are you still expecting that?

Pretty much, if it's Chatham or another hedge fund. But the bankruptcy sale has a July 24 deadline for a buyer to be approved. Twentysomething bids have been submitted.

If it's another chain . . . have no idea what it means (other than mass layoffs).

 

[Tarheel316]

Pretty much, if it's Chatham or another hedge fund. But the bankruptcy sale has a July 24 deadline for a buyer to be approved. Twentysomething bids have been submitted.

If it's another chain . . . have no idea what it means (other than mass layoffs).

Sounds like ****ty news all around. How close are you to retirement?