Jun 17, 2010
Newsroom cuts in San Diego
The creation of the "Jr. Staff Writer" at the San Diego Union-Tribune isn't as funny as it first appeared. Apparently the lower paying position coincides with yet another round of newsroom layoffs. Between 34 and 40 reporters, web editors and copy editors could lose their jobs, according to NBC San Diego.
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as posted a couple of weeks ago, the clown running the show is a one trick pony. what has ever been accomplished on his watch but cut the staff, reduce expenses, deplete innovation and creativity and least i forget, ruin newspapers. he is probably the second best publisher in the biz...the rest are tied for first. what a sham and a shame.
Oh my gosh! Gary, this is simply aweful. Most papers are beginning their recovery. By that I mean that most of them, while not really hiring much, have at least stop shedding jobs. What the heck is going on at the UT?
RIP UT
My oh my, the no talent publisher reaches deep into his bag of trick and recuces newsroom head count. What a shocker. Revenue will follow quickly as this clod continues to ride roughshod on killing yet another newspaper.
What a bunch of crap. We are going to build a lean mean creative team to lead the industry. Yep, and that is another example of an editor spouting the crap he is hearing as gospel or an editor who hasn't a clue. At what point do you lose total credability...at the time you hit the iceberg?
It's pretty much up to the president at this point to turn this economy around and create community organizer type reporting positions while we wait for better times and advertising. Some of the BP money should go to a national reporter corps.
11:17, no disrespect here, but, are you on medication? Maybe the ol president can fix restaurants, gas stations etc. Sure, let's take bp money that truly has impacted those in the gulf through no fault of their own and create reporting positions out of the disaster. makes sense to me.
If the reporter business model is broke, so the say, then a better model is like the community organizers, because community reporters wont report on the "establishment" news the way the mainstream newspapers did, which didn't work, and what about the modern society, which the president represents? Maybe its time for reporters to be like america-corps and use new media like the internet to report local news, for example, about poverty, that never gets reported. Some of us still be believe in change, and the community model, with government jobs, would create nmuch more local news than newspapers can because of the cutbacks.
1:58 -- you are joking right? This is a clever attempt at sarcasm, right? Wow, that's the solution, community organizers. Wow. You have got to be the most naive, gullible person, ever. Wow.
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