Mar 26, 2009

Layoffs, pay cuts at Californian

The Bakersfield Californian is making itself and its paychecks smaller. From Editor and Publisher:
The family-owned Bakersfield Californian has cut 26 jobs -- 20 of them by layoffs -- as part of a wide-ranging austerity plan that includes a 5% salary cut for all non-union employees, an indefinite suspension of 401(k) retirement plan contributions, executive changes including a new newsroom boss, and a pledge for a "total redesign" of the paper and its Web site.

The job cuts, amounting to 11% of the staff, is the second round of layoffs in the last four months as the paper's revenue continues to spiral downward from California's collapsed housing market.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are newspapers that still believe a "total redesign" is going to actually help? Don't tell me, there's some "design guru" on staff who need to justify his/her existence?
Put a little effort into producing copy people actually want to read; they couldn't care less about "dominant elements" and font choice.

Anonymous said...

seriously.