All entries tagged: layoffs
This Week in Review: The Times’ blogs behind the wall, paid news on the iPad, and a new local news co-op
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection of journalism and new media this week, and for whatever reason, a lot of it had something to do [...]
VT Digger: How a layoff spawned a nonprofit site in less than a year
Anne Galloway didn’t know anything about nonprofits or websites when she was laid off from Vermont’s Times Argus last January. She once believed the web was more distracting than resourceful. But a layoff has a funny way of upending your perspective, and now Galloway sits at the helm of her own nonprofit news site.
Galloway launched [...]
NYT’s Keller: “What you can do with less, is less”
When I was in San Francisco for ONA, a kind reader offered a blunt critique of my reporting: “You know, every time The New York Times sneezes, it isn’t news.” He’s right, and yet, here’s another post in which the Gray Lady clears her nose: Bill Keller, the Times’ executive editor who’s becoming a regular [...]
With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism”
Eight months ago, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton was predicting a 40-percent drop in U.S. advertising and paring back accordingly: He laid off 19 writers and, by selling some blogs and consolidating others, shrank his blogging empire from 13 titles to 9. Well, that dire forecast hasn’t quite come to pass — least of all [...]
One reporter’s sweet and bitter dispatch
Five years ago, as I walked out of an editor’s office shaking my head at the “Do we have to call it a blog?” conversation we’d just had, I never thought in my most-feverish dreams that we’d get to a post like this:
When I found out two years ago that The Sun would be starting [...]
A bet on the next news ecosystem: NYT plans modest cuts to lucrative Escapes section & Sunday magazine
We don’t, as a pretty strict rule, cover newsroom layoffs because, well, you know where to find that stuff, and we try to focus on the future. But as newspapers retrench, the jobs and areas of coverage they choose to cut sometimes speak to the next ecosystem of news that’s slowly developing. Yesterday The New [...]
Los Angeles Times editor chats about cuts in his newsroom with predecessor who resisted them
Jim O’Shea was fired as editor of The Los Angeles Times in January 2008 for resisting staff cuts. His successor, Russ Stanton, has trimmed nearly 300 positions from the newsroom as Tribune Co. attempts to crawl out from under its crushing load of debt. On Monday night, I coaxed the two of them into an [...]
