Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Reader: Corporate reorg, cuts to be disclosed Wed.

Newspaper division President Bob Dickey (left) is finally going to announce details of a rumored reshuffling at the Corporate level that will include layoffs, I'm told. Gannett Tower and other employees got an e-mail saying: "Please join Bob for a staff meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. in the First Amendment Dining Room."
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/02/2008 6:55 PM

    Bad news, everyone: They're closing the fitness room and cafeteria.

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  2. Anonymous12/02/2008 6:59 PM

    And you'll have to polish your own balls from now on...

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  3. Anonymous12/02/2008 7:01 PM

    Naw, they will hold hands and think deep thoughts for all the people who were laid off today ... and then they will adjourn for milk and cookies.

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  4. Anonymous12/02/2008 7:17 PM

    Just what we need, another reshuffling, followed by new and enthusiastic leaders determined to push through their pet ideas de jour honed at American Press Institute seminars for new leaders.

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  5. Anonymous12/02/2008 7:28 PM

    The First Amendment Dining Room? You've got to be shitting me.

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  6. Anonymous12/02/2008 7:31 PM

    Yeah 7:28... what an ironic name, huh?

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  7. Anonymous12/02/2008 7:56 PM

    Just heard that Binghamton sold their building ... will be out of there by Summer of 09.

    Could it be that they're going to merge Binghamton, Elmira, and Ithaca into one building? A consolidated copy desk's a given, and after tomorrow, there will be about 30 fewer people across these papers. They sure don't need all the room they have.

    Seems there's more revenue in selling their own real estate than anything else for Gannett nowadays.

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  8. Anonymous12/02/2008 8:28 PM

    Hopefully Giallombardo is one being let go. What a waste case. Her and all her girlfriends (Brewer&Bergin). What a team!

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  9. Anonymous12/02/2008 10:55 PM

    Sorry guys, only one flat screen TV per office.

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  10. Anonymous12/03/2008 4:23 AM

    10:55 - OH THE HUMANITY!

    And all you can get on that one flat screen is USA Today: The Television Show.

    ("Like the newspaper, the television program will emphasize bold graphics, lots of color and short, punchy, upbeat stories - the ''journalism of hope,'' as Allan E. Neuharth, the newspaper's founder, has explained it." 1988 NYT story, http://tinyurl.com/5ou822)

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  11. Anonymous12/03/2008 6:10 AM

    You guys forgot to say "moving forward." You can't talk about Corporate unless you say "moving forward" at least once a sentence.

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  12. Anonymous12/03/2008 11:12 AM

    Count how many times they use the word "innovation."

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