Apr 23, 2009
Deadline day at the Daily News
In a last-ditch attempt to avert another round of newsroom layoffs, guild members at the Los Angeles Daily News have asked management to let them voluntarily cut back their work hours. The Daily News plans to fire five staffers today - two staffers have reportedly accepted buyouts - as part of a plan to slash 15 percent from the newsroom budget. In an email to LA Observed, a guild member says wage cuts might still be on the table at the Daily News - althought it's left unclear to me whether this will happen despite, or in lieu of, layoffs.
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Best of luck to those who are let go and those who remain. All those talking about getting out while you can, please remember than one of every nine Californians is now unemployed.
It is not at all easy to find a job in this state, so make sure whatever you do is in your own interest, not just because someone with no dog in the fight is stirring you up to act on principle.
How about someone who DID have a dog in the fight but managed to pull it out of it AND is urging everybody else to do the same?
The sooner you get out of the fight, the fewer the wounds. At least have a plan, you know? Don't get out on principle; get out to save yourself, to get an early start at a new career, to perhaps....help save someone else?
Does anyone know how many editorial employees remain at the Daily News and/or all LANG newsrooms? Curious that eliminating five jobs would cut newsroom expense by 15%. Odd calculation, however it is figured.
What's the remaining staffing at the papers, however counted per consolidation etc.
...and what's with this about 12 reporters remaining at the DN? Are they serious? I couldn't come up with five!
have a plan people. don't be a victim and think you can't do anything else.
People do you really think a furlough can save this sinking ship? Singleton wants the benefits and salaries.
Do the math, 1 week furlough = average $1000
$ 1000 times 30? = $30,000
Debt, estimated by Forbes at $12 billion.
Drop in the bucket, no no wait bottomless well.
There can't be enough cuts to float this ghost ship. Revenue will continue to tank due to crap decision making, lack of talent, and a ship with no captain. I clearly understand the need for folks to have hope, but let us all be a bit realistic. If they are going to stay in business some number of employees need to remain. Maybe you will be one of them. Regardless, it is a smart person who looks for options while under a bit less pressure than being out of work. If you haven't looked at options, start doing so quickly. This, if possible, will get even uglier.
people wake up!!! the writing has been on the wall for sometime.
if a person has any sense of intelligence about them, they will start making other plans immediately. should have had those plans in the works by now instead of sitting passively and waiting for an ax.
The greatest of all is when they transfered all the copy editors at the Daily Breeze to San Gabriel, they were short people so they filled with LANG editors who were gonna get the ax. Nobody wants to work in a dead zone city.
The sad thing is working for LANG and or MediaNews is now just a job not a career.
MediaNews is a passion killer and a time vampire.
Golly gee, worried about your job, layoffs continue, pay cuts, benefit cuts, no future, no plans from your leaders, looming bankruptcy, union is toothless, crappy economy, won't invest in technology, etc. Seems like a place I would want to work at or continue to work at. Look for alternatives before you are forced to.
What you need to remember is that this is the way a lot of employers like to do business. They don't want you to be happy or comfortable about your job; every time they lay off three people, everyone else gets nervous and works harder.
There used to be a belief that happy, confident employees were the best kind. Now they like people who thank their lucky stars they survived the latest round of layoffs.
You can thank Ronald Reagan for this. His Golden Rule was always that he who has the gold makes the rules.
Yes, I will definitely roll a jimson weed cigarette and reflect on Ronald Reagan's role in the decline of print and of LANG in particular. It's always seemed to me that something was missing from a cogent analysis of media, and the Reagan Factor is the Fifth Element. And jimson weed. And maybe ancient astronauts.
ok, I was with you until you mentioned astronauts.
With Oscar Carza apparently gone today, guess layoffs still are going on...shocker that someone in management fibbed.
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