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Give someone a hug today.
ReplyDeleteSo this week at the APP (shout out to the New Jersey haters), a maintenance guy was busy in the newsroom removing and moving a bank of open filing shelves, some of which are used as staff mailboxes.
ReplyDeleteAnd what do you think is replacing them?
Televisions.
Our new editor has determined that newsroom staff needs to watch television.
And not just any television, oh no. Nothing but flat-screen monitors will do for our new leader.
People are walking around the entire building looking like dawn of the dead, waiting for the next axe to fall, and this guy is installing televisions.
He hasn't even had a general meeting to introduce himself to staff yet. Maybe he's going to make a video and have it broadcast over our new televisions.
Really, Cincy, you can have him back.
yeah, we have several big flat-screens in indy that were supposed to show our web site continually. they didin't hold up well. kept crashing.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 7:30 fri has the right idea:
ReplyDeletewear black 12/2. however bad it's been before, it's got nowhere to go but down. if we can't serve readers properly now, we sure as hell can't serve them better with 10% less staff.
but keep your heads up, sisters and brothers -- with few exceptions, you're not to blame. the problem is with the vastly overpaid suits in virginia who failed to realize the net's impact and failed to deal w/it.
i overheard this in my "information center" the other day:
"he said it was on somethign called craig's list. i'm not familiar with that. are you?"
12:29, Agreed. It's time that corporate woke up and realized that Gutenberg invented the press in 1450.
ReplyDeleteThe Franklins started the concept of the news sheet with more frequent production in the 1700s. We've had a long run with the industrial age product, but the digital world is here and the models are changing.
Advertising for the Web can't be sold the same way we sold it for print. We need new ways of selling it. It won't be through standard business to business corporate sales structures.
Wake up! We are in the digital information age, and the game rules have changed. Even Yahoo has announced layoffs of 1,000 people.
So what does Gannett do? Play catch up with online eBay, Blogger, and other such wannabes like Bid-to-Buy and Mom's sites, stuff that has all been done. If Gannett wants to survive digitally, they have to be pioneering -- thinking beyond what Google has already created. Someone out there has the next idea.
We talk about Innovations and the DIG at Gannett, but are we really innovating?
We are in the information age. Personally, I think what we are seeing is a new age of the entrepreneur. The people that are going to make the next technological breakthrough and make it pay off financially, haven't been discovered yet.
At our site, we have products that we built just to keep the competition out. We are in a smaller metro area. There wasn't much competition.
The competition failed because of the recent economic conditions, yet they are holding on to them "just in case" simply planning to cut the page counts on those products.
A former Gannettoid, who left the company for something better in another state once described it, this way:
"Our community is like a Monopoly board and our community publishing company has own of every color. It's had the Monopoly so long, that it doesn't want to let go of any of the pieces."
I think she was right. We aren't trying to win, we've just been trying to block the competition, so we haven't moved ahead.
The problem is now, I don't think we are playing on the same board anymore.
I am not a PC genius (always use Macs at home), so what's the best way to get all my Outlook e-mail files out of my PC in case I need them later?
ReplyDeleteIs there one file on the hard drive I can copy, or something similar?
(Mac would make this much easier!)
Thanks for any tips.
Mac Person 1:40am,
ReplyDeleteCan you just forward your emails to your personal email? That's what I do, when I want a copy of corporate stuff to keep. Just a thought.
- Sleepless in NJ
1:49: That'd be one way to do it. I was just wondering if there was a way to grab the whole inbox file, slap it onto a thumb drive and do it that way.
ReplyDeleteBLACK TUESDAY. Dec. 2, 2008.
ReplyDeleteA date that will live in journalistic infamy.
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Oh good lord. From one of the folks who knows she's on the list, give me a break.
Let's be honest. Very few of our papers have pulled down Pulitzers, or exist in major markets. St. George Spectrum, Sheboygan Press, Guam? We're hometown papers, by and large.
There will be no day "living in infamy" when this layoff occurs. This is a deeply painful, deeply personal layoff for those of us who take pride in working for the paper they grew up with.
But carrying on, and on, AND ON about it is unseemly. By now we should all be through our grief stages. Yes, 4,000 odd of us will be gone in a week or two. But really, suck it up.
Citibank just announced 50,000 layoffs. GM is considering bankruptcy. The market closed at 7500 on Thursday. Even in our own industry, we've done about the best in staving off the wolves, but all the major chains have taken hits.
How much of our own pain did we cause, publishing endless stories on how newspapers were dying. Are we going to have chapter two now, where we tell our readers that all of our content is crap because we have a couple fewer writers, accountants, or designers?
I know I will be laid off, and I know I will most likely never find another job in my field, at my age and with my experience. Obsessing over it is unhealthy for me, and for all of us.
I'll wear my little black dress on Tuesday. But I'm not going to sit in the parking lot and cry on Wednesday.
The DIG is not innovating. In fact, I heard it might be shut down. I think Michael Maness and Laura Ramos are now trainers for the divisions. They train staff on "how to be innovators"
ReplyDeleteHmmm...let's see, what qualifies Michael Maness and Laura Ramos to train anyone on innovation? I could see them being the experts on "ass-kissing"
I think this is corporate waste at its best.
UNPAID OVERTIME:
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the intensity of the unpaind overtime discussion that I started on Wednesday.
For those of you who work more (sometimes much) than 7.5 hours per day while co-workers leave at 7 Hours and 31 Minutes; here are a couple of information sources for you (that should give Martone, Dubow & company indigestion:
www.LaborLawyer.net
www.OverTimeCases.com
1-877-448-0492
www.GetmanLaw.com
Getman Law Office
9 Paradies Lane
New Paltz NY 12561
1-845-255-9370
Go to
ReplyDeletehttp:www.chicagolegalnet.com/lawyer-attorney-1338293.html
for an article on Overtime Lawsuits by
Stephanie Armour of USA TODAY.
"Companies Face More Overtime Lawsuits"
FLAT SCREE T.V.s in Neptune. Wow, we can't print and distribute a paper with solid content but we can watch C.N.B.C. and witness GANNETT got to $6, $5, $4, $3..........when do the shareholders finakky tell Dubow, Martone & Company to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE BUILDING!!!
ReplyDeleteDo those T.V.s get Porn?
"Do those TVs get porn?"
ReplyDeleteCuz Neptune is interested in Ur anus?
Pshh. Flat-screen TVs are nothing new in Wilmington (the big one in Delaware, not the small one in Ohio).
ReplyDeleteWe've had them for about a year and a half now - four of them, suspended from the ceiling in the center of the LIC over top of the two key "update editors," who are supposed to be the "nerve center" or some such piffle. Y'know, so people in all corners of the newsroom - er, LIC - can look up and see what's top on our Web site instead of taking a few seconds to load it up on their individual terminals and actually read the stories.
They don't function about a quarter of the time. Another brilliant idea - investing in gimmicks instead of good people. Those flat-screen TVs, wireless laptops and show-and-tell photo displays must be Transformers, able to convert into reporters and copy editors with the push of a button. That's the only way Wilmington's going to be able to keep itself afloat after the layoffs. Now, if we could just replace Dubow with an AI robot...
7:51 a.m. said:
ReplyDelete"... taking a few seconds to load it up on their individual terminals ..."
Terminal? TERMINAL? Are you stuck in the 1970s? No wonder this company is dying.
For those about to be laid off, if I could hold your hand in cyberspace, I would. I was laid off in August. It is bad but it is not the end of the world. You still have your family, your friends, your entire life ahead of you. It's going to be fine to be angry and even bitter for awhile, but it will pass - it must pass and you may even need counseling to help it pass - and you will begin to be eager to move on to the next job or whatever is to come in your life. You've done extraordinary work under horrible circumstances, and that should be honored. Since the company won't, let me say thank you for your service, and that comes from the bottom of the heart of a laid-off Gannettoid. Don't despair. Please.
ReplyDeleteI hope my paper has the funds to pay me for the 20+ hrs OT I worked this week? And yes it's documented
ReplyDeleteGood 8:39---with all the systemic examples of an Overtime "Conspiracy", I think the boys & girls in the top floors of the Crystal Palance may start feel like Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid at the end of the movie.....and we're the Bolivian Army.
ReplyDelete8:39---are you a journalists or blue-collar type or white collar?
ReplyDeleteThose of you on facebook, search for the group Don't Let Newspapers Die. Then join and help spread the word.
ReplyDeleteJim – Regarding your 6:01 pm comment, you don’t need to be part of a lumbering behemoth like Gannett to get great pricing.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, when Gannett acquired the company I worked for we ended up paying more for newsprint. And, in many other instances we learned that we had the best prices and/or were equal to what Gannett was paying. Clearly, not the savings we were hoping to gain.
Mac Person 1:40:
ReplyDeleteYou should be able to check your email from your Mac at home by using the Entourage web client. (We can at my Gannett unit.) Try https://webmail.gannett.com your user name is: domain/username (for example Phoenix is pni/username). Your password is, well, your password. Note that you must https not http
Another Mac person lost in the world of PC Zombies :)
8:39 AM
ReplyDeleteWage and hour. Wage and hour. Wage and hour!
Umm, isn't it better to let everyone load the homepage on their own PC and use the site, and, umm, get hits, and, well, know what the hell is on there and how to find it if readers have questions?
ReplyDeletePS. We're getting more TVs, too.
PSS. 8:38 a.m. Thank you for the compassionate words. I hope to see more of that as we complete the Death March, and less hate.
What scares me most is the post on Gannett Blog a couple of days ago from the person who said they brought a gun to work.
ReplyDeleteJim, I hope you did the responsible thing and looked up that person's IP address, figured out where in the country it came from and alerted the management of the Gannett properties in that area. The last thing we need is for someone to go postal and hurt people. It just ain't right, or worth it.
11/22/2008 6:01 AM said:
ReplyDelete"Oh good lord. From one of the folks who knows she's on the list, give me a break..... I know I will be laid off, and I know I will most likely never find another job in my field, at my age and with my experience. Obsessing over it is unhealthy for me, and for all of us."
Well, the difference between you and nearly everyone else I'm aware of is we don't know if we're on the list. Even if we volunteered we don't know.
Hey Asbury,
ReplyDeleteHaven't you put the pieces together yet. If the game is scrabble, the winning letters are PCF. Coming to a warehouse near you!!! A lot sooner than you expect. Come on Jane, let your staff know what is planned. Why keep them in the dark any longer.
1:05 a.m., my memory may be wrong, but I think Mennonite settlers in Germantown in Philly or Lancaster, Pa., beat Franklin to the punch on printing in America.
ReplyDeleteJim - Perhaps you could start a discussion of what perspective layoff victims should do this coming week. Does Health Care continue? check unemployment etc
ReplyDeleteI carry a gun with me all of the time. We have right to carry in my state, and we have a Supreme Court decision saying we have a right to own one. So what's the problem?
ReplyDelete10:20 a.m.:
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the poster said they were bringing the gun to work, and in the context of the discussions here it was clear that the implication was that they were doing so not to simply exercise their lawful freedom but to do some damage. That's why.
10:07--are you in a warehouse or in Neptune? Assuming answer won't comprimise you.
ReplyDelete@6:01 AM: "I'll wear my little black dress on Tuesday."
ReplyDeleteIf you look good, could you post some pix to the blog? Might help pass the time waiting for the ax to fall.
10:07 I figured the same thing back in August. A carrier who works for P.C.F. heard from a manager over there that they were taking over in late-Novemeber/early-December.
ReplyDelete10:04 am: I do not have access to the ISP and geography-specific information about readers that you described.
ReplyDelete@10:04 AM: "What scares me most is the post on Gannett Blog a couple of days ago from the person who said they brought a gun to work.
ReplyDeleteJim, I hope you did the responsible thing and looked up that person's IP address, figured out where in the country it came from and alerted the management of the Gannett properties in that area."
Hoo-boy, liberal histrionics at work. If the state in which the original poster works permits concealed carry at the workplace without permission of the employer, then there's no need for your flame-inciting comment. If, as in VA, the right to carry is suspended on private property if the property owner objects, or if the OP is carrying illegally, then the OP should be asked to leave the premises or arrested, respectively.
I know that most newspaper-industry dwellers -- especially in newsrooms -- are knee-jerk liberals. But let's try not to paint some picture of imminent disaster where none exists.
And, yes, I have a concealed carry permit, but leave my gun at home because company policy in VA prohibits possession anywhere on-site.
Amazing how crises always bring the nut jobs out of the woodwork...
10:35:
ReplyDelete"Amazing how crises always bring the nut jobs out of the woodwork..."
Yeah, well, unfortunately the most common thing I read in stories about mass shootings in the workplace or a school is a paragraph that says the shooter made threatening comments a few days earlier but everyone ignored them.
Im afraid that 10:07 has the correct answer for the Asbury Park Press.I think the key word at this point in time is "OUTSOURCED" meaning your newspaper will no longer need you as a manager in circulation because P.C.F. has a management team in place ready to distribute your newspapers each morning to the carriers.It may take time but it will be done.
ReplyDelete10:07 - I'm in Neptune. I can't say if I'm upstairs or downstairs for obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteTo 9.04 - try as I might, I can't find that group. You got a link?
ReplyDeleteTo 10:40, does this include Courier News and Home News T?
ReplyDelete10:39
ReplyDeletePerfectly said! I agree with you 200%!
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ReplyDeleteI just removed a comment that quoted too much text from what I suspect is copyright material. We are allowed under copyright law to quote limited passages -- but not entire ones.
ReplyDeleteIs there any news on Mississippi papers? Long weekend.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the DIG is not innovating. I've served on the IOC at our site; all it turned out to be was a committee set out on carrying out the publishers wishes to cut costs, lock up paper, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe've had the flat-screen TVs for a while in Palm Springs. When they first put them in and people were puzzled why we would be making such a purchase, given the economic state of our industry, we were told, "Don't worry; this is coming out of a special Gannett technology fund. This is money that was not going to be used for additional personnel, anyway." Great; that makes me feel better.
ReplyDeleteHow's this for holiday spirit? APP announced that Thanksgiving dinner would be served in the building for those working on Thanksgiving Day, which I do not recall ever happening before. (Fattening staffers up for the kill, perhaps?)
ReplyDeleteMaybe people can chow down while catching the Macy's parade on the nice new flat-screen TVs, though.
for 1:40 a.m. et al;
ReplyDeleteYou can always export your e-mail off the server onto a file that can be reopened at home (you have to have Outlook at home, I should point out). Here's how:
File -> Import and Export
Export to a file
Type of file: .pst
Choose your mailbox and check the box at the bottom that says "include all subfolders."
Let 'er rip.
I think some people here would be surprised how many of your colleagues have guns. Someone here is trying to whip up unnecessary hysteria. I looked, but could not find this post a few days ago where someone made alleged threats. Phantom?
ReplyDeleteGannett should sell its papers if it is just going to run them in the ground by making "corporate decisions." You can't run every newspaper the same way, demanding the same content. The only way these papers could even hope to survive is to come out from under the umbrella of corporate's mismanagement and begin to form their own identities. This generic, uniform thing is why these papers are dying.
ReplyDeleteBut I have come to the conclusion that no one in corporate really cares. If they did, they would be asking people 30 and under, the ones who really use the net the most, what they should do instead of arrogantly thinking they know what they're doing.
Sell...to whom...THere are some choice properties already on the market (San Diego, Austin) with no takers. Who would be interested in GCI's properties, and even if they were sold off, what makes you think the new owner would be any better. Do you really want to work for Billy Dean Singleton's outfit?
ReplyDeleteHorney in APP,Wear pink on Tuesday the 3rd
ReplyDeleteRead about the BANG (Bay Area Newspaper Group) if you want to know what REAL cost-cutting means. It is a group of newspapers Singleton put together in the San Francisco area that is probably going to bankruptcy court in the next few weeks. GCI's cuts have been negligible compared to what has happened there, or at some other papers I could name.
ReplyDeleteIn re: "He said it was on something called Craig's list. I'm not familiar with that. are you?"
ReplyDeleteThat is so tragic it makes me want to cry. There is no excuse for such ignorance
And, no, it's not a generational thing. Any working journalist -- even grandmas like me -- who hasn't been going online since the mid-'90s is just incompetent.
I certainly do not enjoy the impending pink slips. But all this talk of the "end of journalism" is a bit pointless. Dubow's goals -- and Singleton's, and Pruitt's, etc. -- is not to breed great reportage. It's to maximize shareholder value. Period.
ReplyDeleteNow, is the current crop of CEOs performing that duty well? I don't believe so, and it appears that the markets don't believe so, either. But I think that the CEOs believe that's what they're doing, and so will continue to wring every possible cent from every property until there's nothing left but husks. And then they'll liquidate those remains. That's their perceived mandate.
Anyone here who thinks that he or she is working toward some broader, Fourth Estate purpose needs a reality check.
Would Gannett fare better by turning properties over to the foundation to sell rather than trying to sell them? I always thought that may be what's being planned.
ReplyDeleteHey Mr. Whig: That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!
ReplyDeletePCF question- Courier News will go in the 1stQ 2009, followed by the Home News Tribune and lastly by APP.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a very tough day. It's like I have been ridden hard and put away wet. But, there is no time to relax...
ReplyDeleteDa dah
It's now time for Larry St. Cyr to come to the rescue....
Could someone please explain the Larry St. Cyr jokes? Pretty please?
ReplyDeleteThe rest of us would like to laugh too......
I think this would be an interesting thread to start. I have heard several people mention that they are documenting everything they experience at this company to keep as evidence for a law suit. I wonder how many out there have heard the same from their co-workers.
ReplyDeleteFor the record: I do not advocate violence of any kind in Gannett workplaces. The layoffs now taking place are tragic, and emotions are understandably running high. But that's not an excuse for even joking about taking extreme steps.
ReplyDelete1:09 Craig's list is Dubow's layoff list. Right?
ReplyDelete11:40 said:How's this for holiday spirit? APP announced that Thanksgiving dinner would be served in the building for those working on Thanksgiving Day, which I do not recall ever happening before.
ReplyDeleteWhen did they announce this? I have been there over 40+ years and it has never happened even under the Families reign.The only thing anounced was 'Have a Happy Thanksgiving and the next Buzz will be out Dec 5th.
And what's with the Job opening for a PressRoom Manager ?
3:39 that was hilarious. Hahahaha. If I'm laid off I'm going to spread my ass cheeks across the EE's door. Tell that dumb bastard to scratch and sniff.
ReplyDeletei for one can't wait for all of this to be over. i am so tired of waiting to find out if i will have a job. tired of waiting to hear what will happen after the newsroom is decimated. tired of being thrown under the bus by my coworkers because they think it will save their job. no one is safe -- not now, not next year. we all need to be kind to one another and realize that we are all in the same boat.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you complaining about TV's in your newsroom....Can you not understand who your local competition is? It's all information sources including TV news and online. Don't you think its a good idea to watch your own product and your competition?
ReplyDelete4:56 there was a message sent out via the internal message system, not email, about dinner in the newsroom. And you're right, that never happened when Jules and Don were running the place.
ReplyDeleteRemember when people were appalled by the pay freeze? I'd take those days again in a heartbeat.
EE Is from Cherry Hill ?. Any news from N.J. How many going not enough. We have a good list ready.
ReplyDeleteHope to put it out 12-1-08.
Anybody know if they're going to let the volunteers know sooner if they were accepted? Heard that most all of the ones who applied were, so who were the ones that weren't?! Since they were sooo nice to volunteer their spot to save others, why can't corporate be professional enough to let them know earlier? Don't think any of them whould suddenly jump ship. I was one to volunteer and would stay to the last day to maybe have some cake and best wishes in my honor.
ReplyDeleteI'm a 20-year newspaper reporter and a former Gannettoid, although I left my last Gannett newsroom in 1995.
ReplyDeleteI took a buyout from the Minneapolis Star Tribune 18 months ago and was fortunate to find a job right away with a PR/marketing agency for significantly more than I was making at the paper.
For those of you leaving, voluntarily or otherwise: be prepared to have severe withdrawal pains on leaving the newspaper business.
I read this blog regularly and I can tell that a lot of you love your jobs, even though Gannett is driving you crazy.
I find my new career rewarding in many ways, and I don't regret making the move. It was the smart decision, given the state of newspapering.
But I spent the first year looking back, missing the excitement, the fun and the freedom of a reporter's life.
A lot of people who have left the business come on this blog, saying, "I left and I'm happier. There is life outside Gannett."
That's true. But I'm telling you, be prepared to miss it deeply and painfully when you leave. Give yourself time to get over it. If you loved it, leaving it will hurt badly.
Jim Hopkins wrote: For the record: I do not advocate violence of any kind in Gannett workplaces.
ReplyDeleteNoted.
(Did a lawyer draft that?)
I fail to see how watching Ugly Betty in the newsroom is beneficial to any newspaper or any journalist beyond maybe a TV critic. TV addicts always want to make it sound like the only thing people watch on TV is news and that it's job related. It's a distraction and shouldn't be permitted.
ReplyDelete"I for one can't wait for all of this to be over. i am so tired of waiting to find out if i will have a job. tired of waiting to hear what will happen after the newsroom is decimated. tired of being thrown under the bus by my coworkers because they think it will save their job. no one is safe -- not now, not next year. we all need to be kind to one another and realize that we are all in the same boat."
ReplyDeleteTo 5:15pm.
I am wholeheartedly sick and tired of the wait as well. It's like waiting on death row for the execution or a call of clemency from the governor. Whether you stay or you go, the wait and the worrying is stressful in this atmosphere. My paper was once a place of laughter and joy. Now it has been replaced by paranoia, fear and dread, where you have to be very careful about what you say or do, lest your paranoid co-workers toss you under the bus for brownie points and the faint glimmer of optimism that selling you out has made them seem more valuable in the boss's eyes. It's hard to explain that we are all expendable. We are all in the same boat and unfortunately it is the RMS Titanic and to some like me, rearranging the deckchairs at this point seems a bit moot.
In our newsroom (sorry, LIC), TVs are on all day, turned to biz channels, CNN, ESPN and local stations, where sound is turned down between newscasts. Someone is always assigned to watch the mid-day and evening news to make sure we didn't miss anything.
ReplyDeleteIt can be a little distracting if the sound is up, but it is highly useful when news is happening. I can't imagine being able to sit down and watch a sitcom or Oprah or any entertainment show for more than a few minutes, what with people walking around, meetings, phones, conversations, etc.
Re: the hatred expressed here from current and former Gannettoids, allowing such bitterness to control your emotions is entirely unhealthy. I am likely going to be laid off next week. Nobody has made direct eye contact with me for weeks. While it is clear that Gannett's downturn is reflecting the national economic downturn much like other companies, I would say most Gannett sites have only quickened the pace of the company's demise by lack of customer service, (courtesy, accuracy in ads and copy and on-time delivery have fallen by the wayside while prices have increased), lack of insight into customer trends, shelving our First Amendment responsibilities and overall arrogance.
ReplyDeleteSimple business fundamentals have been shelved out of greed, fear and panic among our leadership. So, while I certainly will be upset and scared when the pink slip hits my cubicle, I hope that bitterness will not rule. I will miss this business deeply, but I also will hold my head high in knowing that I did my best in what was once a noble profession that served our community.
6:58, when I was at the APP, we had a TV in the sports department and had sporting events on every night. It was very useful, especially when the Yankees or Mets were on the West Coast, or when the Monday night NFL game was on -- more than once we topped the AP third-quarter story with the final result in order to get it in the paper and make deadline.
ReplyDeleteSome of my job required me to be there during the day, however, and it was enormously frustrating when one features editor would come over and turn on the TV in the middle of the day so she could watch a friend of hers on some station.
And even within our own department, the TV could be a distraction. It absolutely has a purpose, but it's not hard to watch stuff that has nothing to do with the job at hand.
For those of you feeling like you're in limbo, consider my situation. We just had our first child last week, and, right before I left for leave, I was pulled into my director's office and asked if I was coming back. "We'll guarantee your leave." Great. Thanks. And what about AFTER my leave? Severance?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure my position is on the cutting block because they have already outsourced parts of it and no one - NO ONE - is planned to cover for me in my absence. I've been here for almost a decade and am one of the highest paid people who do what I do in our building by a couple grand, which is a lot at our site. My manager with 20 years experience at our site only makes a few grand more than me - less than $40k). I may be the "go-to" person for directors' emergencies, institutional knowledge and the like, but I think they're going to focus on the bottom line.
I'll be keeping an eye on the blog to find out what's really happening while I'm gone. Thanks, Jim!
As for the comment about giving papers to the Gannett Foundation. It's a good idea...except, for it to work, someone would have to buy those papers. It's not free money, only a tax deduction to the company. So I don't see a bright light at the end of that tunnel. The market is so bad...look at Daytona...they aren't lined up for that paper nor any others.
ReplyDeleteI think they''l use the foundation to divest themselves from the smaller papers.
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