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 pa...
... 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 re...
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. Acc...
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 a...
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 m...
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 obser...
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: Af...
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,' ...
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 disso...
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 lay...
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.
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 Jo...
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 E...
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 ...
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...
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 i...
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...
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, 138...
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 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, 138...
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...
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 subj...
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 su...
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 ...
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 cornerston...
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 captai...
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 journ...
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 indus...
"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 To...
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 au...
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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 New...
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 P...
More bad news in the newspaper industry: The Tacoma and Olympia newspapers both announced layoffs Monday.
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 Ti...
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 A...
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 A...
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 risi...
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 leade...
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 pre...
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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 ...
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 a...
This entry was posted on February 3, 2009 at 11:05 am and is filed under Newspaper industry, news industry, newspaper bankruptcy, newspaper cutbacks, newsroom layoffs. You can follow any responses...
It’s not hard to understand why there has been hand-wringing about the newspaper industry: Each week seems to bring more stories of layoffs or other cutbacks. The United States has about 1400 daily...
And Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, recently told 'Riffs: "There ought to be 1000 staff cartoonists, but the newspaper industry is committing suicide." If...
The decline in online revenues, while small in dollar terms, is still a crushing blow to the newspaper industry, as the digital medium held out the primary hope for newspapers, which have seen thei...
... layoffs required would be complete by mid-October. The Press-Enterprise cut 30 employees, and the Morning News reportedly lost 20 staffers from its newsroom. These cuts come among a general ble...
The CEO of the company, which runs the Belo newspapers (including the DMN, of course), sent a letter to employees this morning outlining the layoff plan and other cost-cutting measures. As Decherd ...
This is a desperate measure to try to avoid layoffs, although it is no guarantee that layoffs will not follow. ....I am living in the armpit of the Newspaper Industry as the electric paddles are p...
Just as Enron collapsed due to fraud committed by the crooks who ran it, the newspaper industry is dying because of the dishonesty of its management in peddling propaganda. .... Postscript: In the...
American Journalism Review has a piece that profiles a handful of newspaper employees who have lost their jobs—including Erica Smith who founded the website Paper Cuts, which tallies all the layof...
Though these are US stats, there's no reason to suppose things are any different in the UK or Australia as both countries have similarly seen large scale print me dia lay-offs. Unfortunately for t...
When I think of Microsoft these days, I can’t help to compare it to the lumbering and changing newspaper industry that employs this writer. It’s easy to see the shifting sands on how people respon...
The Obama-driven demand won't lift a newspaper industry besieged by falling advertising revenue, but the one-time sales boost could help avert a layoff or two down the road, while serving as a rem...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium. The ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another ...
Add one more name to the list of the newspaper industry's walking dead: those titles that have been put up for sale with the threat of closure if a buyer isn't.
Here's how a Register columnist, Calvin Ross, looks at the newspaper industry (link). He doesn't mention the layoffs, however. Ross writes:. As for newspapers versus the Internet, the jury’s alread...
Erica Smith, whose Paper Cuts maps mashup is de facto official record of newspaper industry layoffs, has put together a nice list of newspapers that use Twitter. Such a roster is automatically out...
The most endangered of the media sectors is the newspaper industry. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Denver's Rocky Mountain News have already been slated for closing if they do not find buyers. ...
More bad news from the newspaper industry. Bloomberg reports that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is being sold. You know that layoffs will be part of this change in ownership. Sphere: Related Conte...
In many ways though, the record industry deserves what it gets, the same way the newspaper industry does. The key though is that many people who work in both industries DON'T deserve the treatment ...
The business model going forward must create high anxiety among the Globe and Mail staff. Where does one find work in the newspaper industry when the whole sector is struggling to maintain profitab...
"We at Hearst benefit from being such a strong and diversified company, but we haven't been spared the difficulties of a newspaper industry in the midst of a difficult transition. We've had to make...
The newsprint industry has been battered by slumping demand from the United States, where the recession and a shift to online news and advertising has weakened the economics of the newspaper indust...
... state of the newspaper industry. Haven't these readers been following what has been happening with this industry accross the country - the buyouts, the layoffs, the closings or near closings o...
Belatedly, today’s Star Tribune featured Editor Nancy Barnes’ column wherein she acknowledges everything from the loss of faith in journalism to declining readership and revenues, and resultant co...
Most newspapers have trimmed their print editions in response to declining advertising and circulation income, according to the Newspaper Industry Association. Despite widespread cutbacks in staff ...
Newspaper industry layoffs abound and will probably get worse in 2009. At this point, it's not clear whether those have affected online ad sales teams. But if digital media is truly a last hope for...
links for 2008-12-27 - Paper Cuts - A Mashup of Job Losses in the US Newspaper Industry Layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers. 2008 total: 15586+ jobs (tags: mashup newspaper m... 3 hours ago ...
Just in case you have trouble understanding some of the reasons for doing so, there's this:If the election of 2008 did not provide you with enough reasons to want to see massive layoffs in the new...
The major challenges of the newspaper industry. Declining print readership, challenges with monetizing the Web, user fragmentation, lay-offs, stock value decline, etc. 2008 was a very difficult yea...
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In the ongoing effort to trim as much fat as possible while preventing layoff, a newspaper may have finally hit on the spiniest spin of all time. It's not a.
“Across the U.S., more than 30 papers are up for sale, but there are no buyers,” sums up a long piece from Britain’s Independent that’s kind of a Wikipedia entry for newspaper industry turmoil. Re...
Besides layoffs, buyouts, bankruptcies and closing bureaus, there's further evidence the traditional newspaper industry's in trouble. The American Society of Newspaper Editors contacted members yes...
The chain -which is owned by Montreal- based Quebecor Inc. -said the move is in response to a newspaper industry in transformation and deteriorating economic conditions. The restructuring by Canada...
It said that aside from the faltering economy and rising costs, fundamental changes within the newspaper industry made the cuts necessary. These include the growing availability of free access to m...
... of setbacks for the American newspaper industry. Even before Tribune—which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and its namesake Chicago Tribune—announced its filing, the chain was w...
The rumored move by Detroit's two big daily newspapers to cut back on home delivery will be closely watched by the rest of the newspaper industry.
Newspaper Industry Cartoon by Steve Greenberg. I missed this earlier, but Steve Greenberg, the former editorial cartoonist for the Ventura County Star, posted this cartoon on Metaprinter.com back w...
From Los Angeles to New York, leading newspapers have slashed newsrooms with buyout offers, and when those failed to reach budget-cutting goals, with layoffs. The newspaper industry has been caught...
Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) chairman and CEO Don Graham has joined Facebook's board. It might seem odd for a social net like Facebook to tap someone from the decaying newspaper industry, but WaPo h...
Layoffs in the Social Media Space Oct 10 08 ... It might seem odd for a social net like Facebook to tap someone from the decaying newspaper industry, but WaPo has been having more success than othe...
The recent Gannett layoffs hit us home here in Des Moines and sparked our week long coverage on the future of the media and journalism. Brian Duffy drew the.
The bankruptcy filing of the Tribune Company on Monday is just the latest, largest evidence that the American newspaper industry is suffering the hangover from an immense buying spree in 2006 and ...
MacDonald has been partnering with the newspaper industry since 1926. We provide newspapers with the tools and services they need to create profitable revenue streams from newspaper advertising. ...
Stocks continued to rally Monday as hopes for an auto bailout and action by world governments helped offset the grim reality of a fresh wave of layoffs.
On some level, I think it would make sense for CrisisWire to expand its definition of crisis and cover the newspaper industry layoffs — it’s a cliché, but true, that good journalism strengthens a...
If you want to watch news travel fast, make sure it's about the newspaper industry. Fitch, a credit-rating service, has predicted that some daily newspapers will go out of business as their parent ...
... in the United States, is making headlines on two continents, as this week it cut 2000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce across its community publishing division, the largest mass layoffs th...
While the college newspaper continues to thrive, with students more than willing to pick up the hard copy, the Internet is swallowing the newspaper industry, with hardly anyone caring about the imp...
And nobody in the newspaper industry earns what a network television news anchors like Katie Couric does. Of course, that's true for the local television reporters and anchors too, who generally ar...
Inc., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is experiencing extreme financial distress, and is in the midst of what's been called the largest number of layoffs in the history of the newspaper i...
The Clarion-Ledger will cut 33 jobs, including 11 staff positions, through involuntary layoffs, severance offers and attrition. One of those being laid off is Orley Hood, a longtime feature writer ...
The Plain Dealer first announced the cuts in October, citing poor advertising revenue and a struggling newspaper industry. The paper said it would begin layoffs if enough employees did not voluntee...
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The Plain Dealer first announced the cuts in October, citing poor advertising revenue and a struggling newspaper industry. The paper said it would begin layoffs if enough employees did not voluntee...
The historic drop resulted from a worsening economy that sharply exacerbated long-term challenges already confronting the newspaper industry, and it affected all kinds of newspaper ads. National ad...
As the newspaper industry’s prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) is joining with the non-profit Christian Scien...
As the newspaper industry’s prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) is joining with the non-profit Christian Scien...
... reveal double-digit profit margins at scores of GCI papers on verge of massive layoffs. We've always heard that Gannett's newspapers racked up double-digit profit margins, even in the bad time...
"The figures point to a potentially stunning drop in the value of the Seattle Times Co., possibly one of the worst performers in a troubled newspaper industry. Consider that four years ago newspape...
... attrition, and layoffs over the last couple of years. That equals about $200000 of membership dues." This "collapse" of the newspaper industry is also affecting the Associated Press and the Ne...
With profits slashed, unending layoffs, and online ad growth slowing, newspapers have to be open to new that will help them deal with a media shift like no other. Last week I looked at the concept ...
What she and I, and many others have been told, essentially, is that critical mass in the newspaper industry is virtually here. I hope Marci will continue the blog somewhere else because it’s a ni...
The dividend, though, seems not to figure much into Morningstar stock analyst Tom Corbett's report. It's newspaper industry industry fundamentals of declining ad revenue and cash flow that are wor...
The price to print newspapers may finally be going down, after a tremendous uphill spike that has contributed in part to the recent shutterings and layoffs in.
A breezy, business-oriented blog on the ups and downs of the newspaper industry by E&P's Editor-at-Large Mark Fitzgerald (in Chicago) and Associate Editor Jennifer Saba (in New York). Between them,...
This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 8:18 am and is filed under Circulation, Demographics, Layoffs, Newspapers, OnlineMedia. You can follow any responses to this entry through th...
After numerous layoffs in recent years, newspapers today at best employ 325000 individuals, or 0.2% of the nation’s labor force. ... The liquidation of the newspaper industry would be a minor blip ...
A breezy, business-oriented blog on the ups and downs of the newspaper industry by E&P's Editor-at-Large Mark Fitzgerald (in Chicago) and Associate Editor Jennifer Saba (in New York). Between them,...
The newspaper industry is resorting to lay-offs and spending reductions. Time Inc., the home of TIME magazine, People, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated cut 600 jobs and began to reorganize its staf...
The newspaper industry is in chaos, but you wouldn’t know it at the Financial Times, the UK-based business daily that now sells more copies in the US than in the UK. In fact, the economic crisis h...
The company’s magazine unit is following the newspaper industry’s lead in shedding staff in response to sliding copy sales and the corresponding decline in ad revenues. The cuts are the first steps...
“Forty percent of the newspaper industry is partnering with Yahoo, and we should see a good Yahoo bump in online display ads,” Doctor says. A lot of retraining will be needed, though. ...
I keep wincing at the volatile stock market, the dismal decline of the newspaper industry, layoffs, corporate closings and pleas for the government to bail out the automakers. It's all about the sa...
The newspaper industry is in trouble, but I don’t think this is the end. The focus is just confused right now. For a long time, newspapers forgot they were a business. Now they’ve remembered and f...
The play The Daily Miracle is a work of fiction, as are the characters, but the true strains and stress of working the desk in today's deteriorating newspaper industry are stranger than fiction. ...
The newspaper industry has been struggling for a while now; certainly it's been for as long as I've had this job. Add to this that the economy is sucking, and, well, there ya go. It's pretty gentle...
It’s hard times in the newspaper industry and Lee, which publishes five dailies in Montana, including the Missoulian, has suspended dividends indefinitely. It has also cut employee benefits and bon...
and they said it was nothing personal, just the unfortunate result of severe cost-cutting measures and the awful state of the economy, the rise of the Internet and the fall of the American newspap...
... while integrating technology and maintaining editorial quality. If less people are reading print, rather than layoff the staff that is needed to maintain a quality product why not just shut do...
I post these not to pile on to the gloomy mood that’s percolating among journalists and in the newspaper industry, but to illustrate the necessity of embracing new ways of thinking about, and doing...
The shift to an online operation — and the expected layoffs that are sure to follow — is yet another indicator of the secular shift of advertising revenue the newspaper industry as a whole is expe...
In just the past two days, the Gannett chain announced plans to layoff 3000 staff at papers across the US, the LA Times axed 75 positions, and the Christian Science Monitor said it was converting t...
MarketWatch: "So far this year, more than 12000 job cuts have been announced in the newspaper industry." Editor & Publisher: "Gannett's newspaper division announced another round of layoffs due to...
Then I click on Drudge and see the latest plummeting newspaper circulation figures and read about the latest layoffs in the newspaper industry. Newspaper readers, it seems, have no loyalty anymore....
... and that the move follows "a growing trend of plant consolidations throughout the newspaper industry. Franklin and Geraldi expressed regret, however, for the lost jobs, which come on top of mor...
Have you paid any attention to the national and regional headlines about the newspaper industry and the automotive industry? Yeah, I know what I’m talking about when it comes to tight finances. I ...
-Abrams said he was opposed to the of a government bailout or rescue plan for the newspaper industry similar to the one created for banking:. I think it's a terrible What would happen is newspapers...
Newspapers suffer spate of layoffs, decline in circulation, ad revenue publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news subscribe faq advertising opportunities a...
Yet, in the face of it all Media General doesn't seem to care. The newspaper industry as a whole, doesn't seem to care. And what has happened? Layoffs. Downsizing. Papers aren't selling and peopl...
Bottom line, the industry is dying and a bunch of old farts who have been in the newspaper industry forever has no what to do. What I heard is that they may not do any marketing for two years, just...
here are some recent headlines on the national press photographer’s website concerning layoffs in the newspaper industry:. newsroom cuts, workers’ hours reduced, in pacific northwest; it gets worse...
Yes, sure, the newspaper industry is at least 400 years old, but with the introduction of the Internet, everything has changed. The library scientists are comparing the impact of the Internet to t...
The job cuts are the result of a broad restructuring that AH Belo said it was implementing as it faces an "unprecedentedly adverse business environment in the newspaper industry." AH Belo said it p...
bad news: vancouver's columbian newspaper is facing the prospect of chapter 11 after its ill-timed move to a new $30 million office building in downtown vancouver and the declining newspaper indust...
He cites "hard times" ahead for the newspaper industry as a whole. One big problem faced by newspapers, in specific: the rapidly declining number of ads. Despite having forged partnerships with job...
20 to accept a buyout offer, with layoffs expected to make up the difference. the plain dealer, which has 299 newsroom employees, cut 64 journalist jobs in 2006. the actual reductions are somewhat...
Facing an unprecedented plunge in the newspaper industry, The Tribune announced Monday that it will withdraw from the Scottsdale and Tempe markets beginning in the first week in January and will m...
It has been a bumpy few years in the newspaper industry (it seems as if layoffs, hiring freezes and buyouts have defined the landscape since I entered the business in 2005 - coincidence?), but Jake...
They're both facing massive layoffs as the Newspaper Industry collapses in upon itself. And of course you'd have to be hiding under a tree stump to not know that Wall Street is, uh, facing some add...
(Wall Street Journal) The malaise afflicting the newspaper industry worsened Tuesday as McClatchy Co. announced its second major staff reduction in three months and the Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ, t...
The Press Club is getting reports that there has been another round of layoffs in the Bay Area newspaper industry, but this time they're not being announced publicly. Apparently some of those being...
entering the newspaper industry at such a tumultuous time. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t occasionally felt tinges of regret. As much as this is a scary time to be a journalist, it’s also a thri...
The newspaper industry has been hobbled by the economic slump and competition from the Internet, prompting layoffs at almost every chain. Revenue is down 15 percent this year at The Bee's parent, T...
People who complain that the implosion of the newspaper industry will create a vacuum in American democracy should perhaps take a harder look at The Politico. Launched just a little over 18 months ...
