The Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn., will move its printing to the nearby Tennessean, effective Nov. 30, Anonymous@1:55 p.m says -- five weeks after area publishers' jobs were combined in another money-saving consolidation move. The 37 Leaf-Chronicle production jobs eliminated are on top of nine others in "creative'' (I believe that's advertising production), the reader says. Laid-off workers got one week of severance pay per year worked, the reader says.[Image: today's front page, Newseum]
Next up Asheville I presume?
ReplyDeleteIt's a terrible shame what Gannett is doing to this paper. It's Tennessee's oldest newspaper, founded in 1808, and Gannett is dismantling it bit by bit. My sympathies to those who are losing their jobs.
ReplyDeleteI extend my sympathies to all the people losing jobs at the state's oldest newspaper.
ReplyDeleteWhat is their presstime@ the Tennessean 9:30?
ReplyDeleteWell isn't that lovely? Jobs gone up there and even MORE burden on the antiquated and unreliable press here at 1100 Broadway.
ReplyDeleteI hear the chillers should be running at peak performance just in time for the weather to cool off.
Nashville has things under control, like spending, they have now spent over $38000.00 putting a overboard time clock system in. someone here must be cheating them out of 5 minutes somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIronically, with the layoffs hitting the Tennessean on Decemeber 3rd, the Production Director at the Clarksville paper has new job title, something to the effect of Production Liaison. What is this? Sounds like a good old buddy network, save my job while releasing plenty of good folks. This position was specially created after the layoffs were announced.
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