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No real reason to start a new thread, other than that I wanted the chance to use this title.

Tronc changing name back to Tribune Publishing

 

[Bronco77]

Moved from the "old" thread:

According to a contact of mine who's out of a job after today and is contemplating a future as a chicken farmer (yes, really!), what's left of the Sun Sentinel's copy desk is shut down and everything will be produced in Chicago starting with the Sunday paper. Means nothing in the sports section will be designed or copy-edited on site. Can't let that pass without saluting what that sports desk did over the years (especially before 2011 or so when it was a "real" sports desk). An unbelievable amount of talent passed through there and did some great work. Would take forever to list everyone who made a contribution (though suffice to say that frequent Sportsjournalists contributor BTExpress is a Hall of Famer in my book).

 

[FileNotFound]

Moved from the "old" thread:

According to a contact of mine who's out of a job after today and is contemplating a future as a chicken farmer (yes, really!), what's left of the Sun Sentinel's copy desk is shut down and everything will be produced in Chicago starting with the Sunday paper. Means nothing in the sports section will be designed or copy-edited on site. Can't let that pass without saluting what that sports desk did over the years (especially in the years before 2011 or so when it was a "real" sports desk). An unbelievable amount of talent passed through there and did some great work. Would take forever to list everyone who made a contribution (though suffice it to say that frequent Sportsjournalists contributor BTExpress is a Hall of Famer in my book).

Can totally second that. That S-S desk was a juggernaut, as was the competing Miami Herald's.

 

[Severian]

Can totally second that. That S-S desk was a juggernaut, as was the competing Miami Herald's.

RIP. I wonder if the McClatchy merge will reinvigorate the desk.

 

[Slacker]

RIP. I wonder if the McClatchy merge will reinvigorate the desk.

Hard to reinvigorate any desk when the workload keeps getting heavier.

Miami, I've heard, is down to one full-time copy editor in Sports. Any others are freelancers or newsies.

 

[Fran Curci]

RIP. I wonder if the McClatchy merge will reinvigorate the desk.

Aren't you getting a little bit ahead of the news? In any case, sadly, it probably wouldn't. McClatchy is moving to the same model; I imagine it already exists to a large extent.

 

[Severian]

Aren't you getting a little bit ahead of the news?

Maybe? The merge is 90 percent happening.

 

[Severian]

Hard to reinvigorate any desk when the workload keeps getting heavier.

Miami, I've heard, is down to one full-time copy editor in Sports. Any others are freelancers or newsies.

No surprise. The Herald is too top heavy. Fire some of the useless editors and hire more sports copyeditors, especially if the paper is selling Sports-only subscriptions.

 

[BTExpress]

I left the S-S in August 2011, one month after Hartford's jobs were outsourced to Chicago and we were told, "Florida (Orlando and Fort Lauderdale) is next . . . within the next year."

I'm glad for my former colleagues that it took seven years, and not one. But I never found out exactly what happened to wreck the scheduled timetable.

That desk was so good I felt like a .220 hitter much of my time there. But it's 26 years I'll always cherish.

 

[InTheKnow22]

I left the S-S in August 2011, one month after Hartford's jobs were outsourced to Chicago and we were told, "Florida (Orlando and Fort Lauderdale) is next . . . within the next year."

I'm glad for my former colleagues that it took seven years, and not one. But I never found out exactly what happened to wreck the scheduled timetable.

That desk was so good I felt like a .220 hitter much of my time there. But it's 26 years I'll always cherish.

A former copy desk chief from Buffalo says you weren't as good as you think you were and wants to know how you kept your job. ha!

 

[BTExpress]

Too bad Miami is the lone holdout and is not among the papers the McClatchy publishing center produces (probably because of el Herald). I'd get to work with him again (albeit mostly by Google chat).

 

[Bronco77]

A former copy desk chief from Buffalo says you weren't as good as you think you were and wants to know how you kept your job. ha!

No doubt he said that while on his way to one of his dozen or so smoke breaks (two cigarettes per break). But even though his management style was good for a few laughs, he was one of the big reasons that desk was so good for so long (it's still amazing he survived in that job, perhaps the toughest in the newsroom, for 15 years). I worked for him for five years and really enjoyed it. Always figured it was a lot like playing for Earl Weaver on the old Orioles.

 

[BTExpress]

He ALWAYS had my back. And for that I'm forever grateful.

 

[Slacker]

No doubt he said that while on his way to one of his dozen or so smoke breaks (two cigarettes per break). But even though his management style was good for a few laughs, he was one of the big reasons that desk was so good for so long (it's still amazing he survived in that job, perhaps the toughest in the newsroom, for 15 years). I worked for him for five years and really enjoyed it. Always figured it was a lot like playing for Earl Weaver on the old Orioles.

My only beef is the guy smokes Winstons. That brand seemed to have an exceptionally noxious after-reek.

 

[BTExpress]

I spent my childhood under the mushroom cloud of parents and relatives smoking Winstons. Thank God my 91-year-old dad quit cold turkey in 1971.

 

[Severian]

Too bad Miami is the lone holdout and is not among the papers the McClatchy publishing center produces (probably because of el Herald).

Yes, El Neuvo is part of it. Also, logistically, transporting papers from printing centers outside Miami-Dade and Broward county would be a nightmare in the morning traffic.

 

[Danwriter]

Drones.

 

[BTExpress]

Yes, El Neuvo is part of it. Also, logistically, transporting papers from printing centers outside Miami-Dade and Broward county would be a nightmare in the morning traffic.

"Publishing center" does not mean "printing center".

When we typeset pages, we typeset them to whatever pressroom the paper always uses.

 

[FileNotFound]

Tribune Publishing names new CEO as 3 executives depart

Dearborn, Levinsohn, Rosen out. Tim Knight in. Sale imminent?

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Apparently, they're looking to merge with Gannett to prevent Digital First from buying.