Driven by New Jersey employees, traffic is up. This chart shows daily visits (yellow) and pageviews (red) over the past 30 days, as of late this morning. As always: Thank you for your continued vote of confidence. And remember: There's strength in growing numbers -- now, especially, since members of the board of directors say they're readers, too. Also, if you haven't already, please consider completing the "Where do you work?'' survey, at the top of the blue sidebar, right.[Data: SiteMeter]
Fun facts to know and spread: I'd like every one of Gannett's 46,100 employees to read this blog.
ReplyDeleteBut I aim mostly at fewer than 7,000. That is my estimate of the combined employment of newsrooms at the 85 daily papers and 23 TV stations, plus about 1,000 Corporate staff at the local operating committee level, and at the Gannett Tower in McLean, Va. Together, they represent the company's most influential employees.
Jim, on your "Where do you work?" survey, you need to add a "spouse of Gannett employee" option because, believe me, they live it, too!
ReplyDelete@12:28 p.m.: Good idea! Unfortunately, the software won't allow me to change the options after a survey is launched.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. But nothing new revealed. I recall a Corporate director in charge of customer service. He always bad-mouthed a local Virgina car dealer...made it a point actually. He spread the word.
ReplyDeleteThis blog. Cherry Hill and Collins got all the big hits and commentary. Now Westchester is on the horizon too.
Do something good for a person and tell three people. Do something wrong to a person and tell eleven people.
Neuharth, Curley, Watson, Stier, Collins, and Sherlock. Attest to the axiom...and to their vile manner.
Maybe the NJ properties could sell more newspapers by doing an expose on themselves and management (past and present)?
ReplyDeleteI think anyone who lives AND works in Jersey is, by default, miserable. They are lucky they have a job in the crappiest state in the Union! I think the level of stupidity in Jersey qualifies them for disability status.
ReplyDeleteHEY! Remember this: you gotta be tough to successfully live and work in NJ. It's tedious and extremely competitive. Better to live and work here than in some Hicktown, USA!
ReplyDeletehey, anon 2:37pm - piss on you!
ReplyDeletelove, nj
I kind of like living and raising my kids in Hicktown, USA ...
ReplyDeleteanon 7:57 a.m. "kind of like?" I LOVE living and raising my kids in NJ.
ReplyDeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteRe: your post -"But I aim mostly at fewer than 7,000. That is my estimate of the combined employment of newsrooms at the 85 daily papers and 23 TV stations, plus about 1,000 Corporate staff at the local operating committee level, and at the Gannett Tower in McLean, Va. Together, they represent the company's most influential employees.
Is it arrogance or ignorance that allows you to equate newsrooms as more important than other departments at the local level? It’s a team effort to get the newspaper out! Readership is dependent on the quality of the product, the ability to financially support the product and the ability to get the product into the hands of the customer. If you don’t think so, try working on the phones when customers call in to cancel their subscriptions, or try selling an ad to someone who is trying to reach even more narrowly targeted audience groups. Newsrooms are still trying to compete as a mass medium when our readers and advertisers are working in a targeted world. The newsroom is but one leg of a three legged stool and I’d urge you to try sitting down on a one legged stool for any length of time.
As to the corporate staff and operating committees, I’d argue that they are less influential than you give them credit for. Most of the positive changes that are happening at local sites are coming from the ground floor up and not from the penthouse down. And they are often found where you least expect them. Not in your vaunted newsrooms and not in the penthouse. In fact, there is a strong argument that bureaucracy, politics, structure and lack of risk taking from both of those areas is driving the industries woes.
On second thought, I guess you are right – newsrooms and corporate are the company's most influential employees. They are the biggest reasons for our current decline.
To Anon@11:46. It is neither arrogance nor ignorance. I wrote that out of sheer stupidity! I meant to say that those 7,000 are AMONG the company's MORE influential employees.
ReplyDeleteI can write the most important story of my life -- but it goes no where if the copy desk doesn't write a headline. Ditto if the advertising department doesn't sell ads to support the paper. And if the press operators don't do their job. Same if circulation doesn't get it to the reader's front door -- or if IT folks don't put it online.
One of the things I always loved about newspapering was the team effort. And it is what I still miss.