Here's an illustration of what happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers: They report on their own firings. That's what's happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett (GCI) employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about -- Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied up about 1,000 cuts just in this round alone.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
WSJ on the downside of laying off lots of reporters
From a new post on All Things Digital, the technology blog owned by Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co.; this is by MediaMemo blogger Peter Kafka:
Here's an illustration of what happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers: They report on their own firings. That's what's happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett (GCI) employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about -- Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied up about 1,000 cuts just in this round alone.
Here's an illustration of what happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers: They report on their own firings. That's what's happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett (GCI) employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about -- Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied up about 1,000 cuts just in this round alone.
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Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."
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As a media observer, this is the real story of the layoffs. With the tools available it is not possible to keep information from being distributed.
ReplyDeleteGannett has tried ignoring Jim and his blog, but it didn't work. It has been said that what isn't in the newspaper is more important than what is.
So it appears to be here.
Walter Abbott
Forget trying to ignore Jim, they tried to take down his sight with massive amounts of spam.
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