A timeline of stories about newspaper industry layoffs using Google News' RSS feed and Google Blog Search RSS feed for the terms "newspaper industry" and layoffs.
Created by scmurley on Sep 9, 2008
Last updated: 11/17/12 at 01:27 AM
Here's what he tells them: "I can't save the newspaper industry, and I can't stop layoffs, and I can't impact the recession. I know this is a cliché, but I can only do the best work that I can do, and I happen to still love it. ...
http://wesleyvaclav.blogspot.com/2010/04/isus-greg-mcdermott-offered-creighton.html
It is interesting how quickly it appears the book publishing industry has embraced digital distribution and yet the Newspaper industry can't. Well I decided to write this blog as I read my last home delivered Sunday Oregonian newspaper. ...
http://ctoatgfu.blogspot.com/2010/02/newspapers-are-really-running-out-of.html
Newsweek admits to its own cuts in staffing from years past, and cites situations where markets are changing and organizations cut to adjust to realities, such as with the newspaper industry. Jeffrey Pffefer, argues that most layoffs ...
http://revelnconsulting.posterous.com/layoffs-and-bad-business-decisions-jeffrey-pf
Employees in the newspaper industry took another hit over the holidays as 752 people lost their jobs in December 2009. That brought the total number of people who lost their jobs in the industry in 2009 to 15114, according to News ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2010/01/newspaper-layoffs-spike-in-december.html
The vast majority reflects layoffs, but some are from buyouts offered by news organizations or jobs lost because of a newspaper ceasing operations. Email me to report any job cuts in the newspaper industry. ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-york-times-starts-layoffs-of-26.html
News Cycle calculates that, so far this year, "15093 people have received their pink slips or have [opted] into a buyout package in the newspaper industry." And December isn't done yet. The blog notes that more layoffs are expected at ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/newspaper-job-losses-top_n_394002.html
The newspaper industry has become like the weather in Chicago — it changes every five minutes. If you're among the lucky that survived the layoffs, buyouts, forced-outs, closings, etc. over the past two years, it's likely you inherited ...
http://www.copydesk.org/board/?p=260
... by the end of the year, the newspaper reported Monday. The Times said management will mail buyout packages to the entire newsroom — both union and non-union employees — on Thursday and will resort to layoffs if not enough [...] ... The Times Co. bought the Boston Globe for 1.1 billion dollars in 1993 but the value of the newspaper has plummeted since then, along with the fortunes of the US newspaper industry. The Times Co. recently completed a sale-leaseback deal for ...
http://www.nwotruth.com/new-york-times-to-cut-100-newsroom-jobs/
The newspaper will be offering its employees buyouts and if not enough of them take them, layoffs will ensue. It's another sign that the newspaper industry's downward spiral continues unabated. According to NYT's Media Decoder blog: ...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/new_york_times_to_cut_8_of_new.html?ft=1&f=103943429
August -- 425 people. July -- 2505 people. June -- 318 people. May -- 1084 people. April -- 1350 people. March -- 3943 people. February -- 1492 people. January -- 2256 people. Email me to report any job cuts in the newspaper industry. ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/10/newspaper-layoffs-ease-in-september.html
The result: plummeting newspaper profits leading to a tidal wave of layoffs and bankruptcies, and the shuttering of bureaus in Washington and abroad. Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of a conglomerate ...
http://nanopolitan.blogspot.com/2009/09/annals-of-online-education.html
Joel Kramer, founder, editor and CEO of MinnPost.com, will discuss the changes taking place in today's newspaper industry on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Kramer founded an online newspaper seen by some observers as a model that might succeed while ... Snyders continued, “For an industry wracked by massive layoffs and plummeting ad revenue, any news not involving job loss was a good thing.” MinnPost.com has garnered quite a bit of attention as both critics and supporters have ...
http://smumn-cn.blogspot.com/2009/09/minnpost-founder-to-discuss-newspaper.html
This will happen even as larger papers continue to experience layoffs, abbreviated publication schedules and outright closures in order to “right-size” themselves. 3. Newspapers selling smarter: After emerging from a long-time, ...
http://www.davidandrewjohnson.com/2009/08/five-reasons-why-newspaper-industry-will-bounce-back-seeking-alpha/
Yesterday was his last day at the paper, but he wasn't caught up in one of the rounds of buyouts and layoffs hitting the newspaper industry. Gombossy claims he was 'was fired for doing [his] job,' after his last column exposed the ...
http://www.ctenvironmentalheadlines.com/2009/08/business-hartford-courant-watchdog.html
There, newspaper circulation and revenues continue a calamitous decline, with sinking advertising the cause of thousands of journalist layoffs; cuts in newsprint; bankruptcy filings by, and dissolution of, major newspapers; ... Alan Mutter, a former colleague and now a newspaper industry analyst/ blogger based in San Francisco, opines mostly on industry economics, but concedes that papers "are filling themselves with the most basic, quickest-to-produce content. ...
http://news.independentminds.livejournal.com/3763226.html
In this interview, he assesses the various rescue strategies that have been floated, the struggles publishers are having with reinvention and the silver lining behind the nearly 15,00 newspaper layoffs of the last two years. ...
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ken-doctor-publishers-have-a-respite.html
In January, newspapers reported 2256 layoffs to start the year. Email me to report any job cuts in the newspaper industry. Posted in Newspaper Closings, Newspaper Layoffs Tagged: Newspaper Layoffs.
http://newscycle.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/newspapers-laid-off-2478-in-july-bringing-2009s-total-above-13000/
Journalism Review, May 22, 2009; Smith, Erica, “Layoffs and buyouts at US newspapers in 2009,” Paper Cuts. http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts. 30 Dorroh, Jennifer, “Statehouse Exodus,” American Journalism Review, April/May 2009. ...
http://ciamemoryhole.blogspot.com/2009/07/us-newspaper-industry-in-transition_29.html
layoffs.22 Cash flow margins for big, public newspaper companies reached their high in the late 1990s at 29%, an average that declined to 13% in 2008 with large differences from paper to paper.23 Endnotes ...
http://ciamemoryhole.blogspot.com/2009/07/us-newspaper-industry-in-transition_28.html
In the newspaper industry, however, the fledgling efforts of new media to replicate the scope, competence, and consistency of a healthy daily paper have so far yielded little in the way of genuine competition. .... The Sun, at this point, has had about eight rounds of buyouts and layoffs, beginning well before the arrival of the Internet, dropping the editorial staff from 500 to 160. Given that kind of carnage, there was no need for the Post to have any prize-based ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/you-must-find-a-way-to-make-people-pay-for-content-2009-7
And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up." And they will come for you because the layoffs will never cease at Gannett. This is the orchestrated dismantling of the newspaper industry. ...
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/friday-your-final-layoff-news-comments_10.html
As the print newspaper industry strives to boost circulation and advertisement revenues, creative juices have been flowing in a variety of editorial and production directions. A number of bizarre initiatives have ..... IS THERE LIFE AFTER MEDIA (LAYOFFS)? Buy a copy for you, or a colleague, of: A PLACE IN MY COUNTRY: In Search of a Rural Dream 'Books about cosmopolitan urbanites discovering the joys of country life are two a penny, but this one is worth a second glance. ...
http://thefutureofprint.blogspot.com/2009/07/russia-bag-your-groceries-in-your.html
As previously reported, the newspaper industry has been facing steep declines in revenues and has laid off many reporters and staffs. Gannett Company has seen advertising revenue fall more than 30% in the first year from the first ...
http://laidoffnation.com/2009/07/gannett-layoffs/
The vast majority reflects layoffs, but some are from buyouts offered by news organizations or jobs lost because of a newspaper ceasing operations. In May, 1084 people were laid off. In April, 1381 people were laid off from newspapers ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/06/globe-management-union-talks-last.html
However, an article on Poynter (a newspaper industry Web site) earlier this week signaled that the Globe might not be the money pit the Times deemed it just two months ago. Here's an excerpt from the article: ... It seems odd, to say the least, to count that severance as a loss in the context of negotiating pay cuts and layoffs. “The savings from concessions by the Guild and other unions are targeted at $20 million. With that, the Globe would be close to break-even for ...
http://www.iconoclast-investor.com/2009/06/13/the-newspaper-controversy-continues/
The vast majority reflects layoffs, but some are from buyouts offered by news organizations or jobs lost because of a newspaper ceasing operations. In May, 1084 people were laid off. In April, 1381 people were laid off from newspapers in the United ... Here is a list of the newspapers that cut 1492 people in February. Here are the newspapers that reported 2114 layoffs in January. Email me to report any job cuts in the newspaper industry. June 3. Stanwood/Camano (Wash. ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/06/euna-lee-and-laura-lings-trial-begins.html
A recent Wall Street Journal feature charts the most recent closures, bankruptcies, layoffs, and reduced print days experienced by the nation's 100 top newspapers. But for the academic diagnosis of what ails the newspaper patient, ... There's a bit of overkill to Davies' sweeping, negative appraisal of the newspaper industry. For instance, Otis Chandler took smart, gutsy action as publisher of the Los Angeles Times in the first half of the 1960s and turned his newspaper ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2219164/?from=rss
Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future. “Models to Monetize Content” is the subject of a gathering at a hotel which is actually .... At the behest of new corporate superiors (yes, some from radio), I helped oversee the painful layoffs of about 100 in the Chicago Tribune newsroom last year, before being dispatched by someone the Marlon Brando character in ...
http://thenewcurrent.com/newspaper-execs-hold-private-meeting-on-paid-content/1696/
Online advertising revenue isn't going to prevent more layoffs, salary cuts or bankruptcy filings. Online advertising revenue isn't going to save the newspaper industry. How do online news sites such as msnbc.com, FOXNews.com and ...
http://www.scoopingthenews.com/2009/05/5-reasons-online-advertising-wont-save.html
Newspapers across the country have resorted to layoffs and other cost-cutting moves to deal with a wounded business model and a recession-fueled drop in advertising. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its final edition earlier this ...
http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/washington-state-governor-tries-to-save-newspaper-industry-with-tax-cuts/
John Kerry, D-Mass., observed that the newspaper industry appears to be an "endangered species." A chorus of senators rightfully expressed concern that newspapers' role as watchdogs and cornerstones of an informed democracy is ... Like newspapers, other media companies have been enforcing layoffs, unpaid furloughs and pay cuts to reduce expenses as revenue shrinks as advertisers pull back. The closings of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Denver's Rocky Mountain News ...
http://creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/newspapers-are-too-essential-to-fail.html
What I say will likely conflict with what representatives of the newspaper industry will claim for themselves. And I can imagine little agreement with those who speak for new media. From the captains of the newspaper industry, ..... Absent this basic and belated acknowledgment that content has value -- if indeed it still does after so many destructive buyouts and layoffs - and that content is what ultimately matters, I don't think anything else can save high-end, ...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/09/david_simon_testimony_at_the_future_of_journalism_hearing_96415.html
The awards were announced after one of the most depressing years the newspaper industry has ever seen, with layoffs, bankruptcies and closings. The Pulitzers are the most prestigious award in journalism. JOURNALISM: ...
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/675754.html
For a map that locates these layoffs and others, see Paper Cuts, a website by Erica Smith, who has been tracking newspaper layoffs since 2007. Email me to report any job cuts in the newspaper industry,. April 4: Watertown (N.Y.) Daily ...
http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/04/belo-starts-layoffs-today-500-expected.html
"It is a huge warning shot across the bow of the newspaper industry. If this can happen to the storied Boston Globe, pretty much nothing is safe," said Boston University communications professor Tobe Berkovitz. ... But since its purchase, the Globe has gone through several rounds of layoffs and buyouts. As readership shifts to online news, the newspaper's average weekday circulation fell 10 percent to 323983 for the six months ending Sept. ...
http://www.kansascity.com/438/story/1124679.html
I asked Christian Hendricks, VP of McClatchy Interactive, about that company's recent layoffs and he called them "strategic." No one feels good about them, mind you, but if you can, as the first author reports, put out a digital edition ...
http://community.naa.org/blogs/opportunopoly/archive/2009/03/30/picking-the-bones-of-the-newspaper-industry-before-it-s-dead.aspx
Tags: ajc layoffs, downsizing, Julia-Wallace, media industry, newspaper industry, newspaper industry layoffs, newspaper layoffs, newspapers. x. Email this post. Your name: Your email: Friend name: Friend email: Email this post ...
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/25/ajc-downsizing-update/
A Cardin spokesman said the bill had yet to attract any co-sponsors, but had sparked plenty of interest within the media, which has seen plunging revenues and many journalist layoffs. Cardin’s Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow ...
http://urbangrounds.com/2009/03/25/state-run-newspapers/
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The flight of readers to the Internet has wreaked havoc in the newspaper industry. More and more daily newspapers are moving solely to the internet or shutting down. Syracuse's Post Standard is feeling the squeeze. ... It's the place most people hear news of recession and layoffs, but the news media has been hit hard by the economic slowdown. And dwindling advertising dollars continue to have an impact in the Central New York region. ...
http://news10now.com/default.aspx?ArID=136148
More bad news in the newspaper industry: The Tacoma and Olympia newspapers both announced layoffs Monday.
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/789426.html
This entry was posted on March 4, 2009 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Newspaper industry, news industry. Tagged: All Headline News, Associated Press, bloggers vs. journalists, copyright, Seattle Times. You can follow any responses to ...
http://virtualjournalist.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/seattle-times-is-looking-at-you-bloggers/
... in a memo to employees. The Express-News just laid off 75 people in their newsroom today. Seventy-five. Seventy-five. Seventy-five. Do I need to write it again? Seventy-five. It's not even the only news-industry layoff today. ...
http://shortformblog.com/biz/this-newspaper-industry-quote-just-made-us-cry
Union-represented and other employees under contract will be asked to participate in the furlough "in lieu of layoffs," Media General said. Alan Wolfe's The Future of Liberalism. - By K. Anthony Appiah - Slate . ...
http://virtualjournalist.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/live-blogging-the-oscars/
Union-represented and other employees under contract will be asked to participate in the furlough "in lieu of layoffs," Media General said. Alan Wolfe's The Future of Liberalism. - By K. Anthony Appiah - Slate ... Wolfe's distinctive claim, however, is that the key to ... This entry was posted on February 18, 2009 at 3:19 pm and is filed under Mainstream media, Newspaper industry, Online journalism, The Internet, news industry, newspaper websites. Tagged: New York Times, ...
http://virtualjournalist.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/nieman-ranks-the-top-newspaper-websites-of-2008/
The Blogger Keeping Tabs on His Newspaper. Related stories, videos, tweets, photos about Recession, Blogger, Economy, Layoffs, Man Show. ... With the economy stuck in a recession, unemployment rising and the newspaper industry declining, Hopkins has become a voice and outlet for current and former Gannett employees to express their emotions about corporate news and the industry’s troubled state. "I suspected my former employees would want a place where they could get ...
http://www.techchuck.com/2009/02/17/the-blogger-keeping-tabs-on-his-newspaper/
I am usually busy at that time. The “Winning Online Manifesto” says the trend is clear and immediate action is required to avoid painful contraction, layoffs, and closings. Newspaper industry leaders are frogs in a pot. ...
http://jccavalcanti.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/are-newspapers-and-magazines-dying-os-jornais-e-revistas-estao-morrendo/
A look at the inner-workings of the Gazette newsroom and the newspaper industry. Blog home page | RSS feed. Jeff Kidd is editor of The Beaufort Gazette. He has lived in Beaufort since 1992 and previously was sports editor of the ... it 'a very difficult day' for the newspaper, which now has 460 full-time and part-time employees. The layoffs followed a voluntary buyout program that The Post and Courier offered all employees last summer, the story stated. ...
http://www2.beaufortgazette.com/insidepages/layoffs
... 2009 at 11:25 am and is filed under Newspaper industry, Online ad sales, Online journalism, Print Journalism, media ownership, news industry, newspaper bankruptcy, newspaper cutbacks, newspapers, newsroom layoffs, ...
http://virtualjournalist.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/newspapers-arent-dead-they-just-smell-bad/
Each day brings a new story about one of our newspaper industry colleagues, not to mention the daily reports of layoffs happening locally and nationally in the broader economy. Next Steps ...
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/02/04/seattle_times_in_survival_m
A large grouping of newspaper publishers have joined together and launched a public relations campaign to inform readers that, yes, newspapers are still relevant — despite the financial hardships and layoffs of thousands of employees ... There, the group will post pro newspaper industry stories and further ads to encourage readers to stick with newspapers as an important news source. But, it seems that at least one of the industry’s troubles is not being ...
http://www.5wpr.net/?p=621
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