Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Part 1 | Tuesday's Layoff News & Comments

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  1. Anonymous7/07/2009 7:34 AM

    I was wondering if you work nights and try to log into your work web email before you go in you might get a heads up that way. What is left of your IT departments probably kills accounts early in the day or perhaps the night before? My wife was cut in the last round and was actually not working that day so she got the news by phone. I think it was better that way, the bottle of merlot was much closer at hand.

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  2. Anonymous7/07/2009 7:48 AM

    Pensacola expecting to cut fewer than 17.

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  3. Unk Nunkie7/07/2009 7:52 AM

    I wirk in IT and handle disabling accounts. Here, we do not cut off the account until after the person has gone. Although I may get a list requesting accounts be disabled immediately. Otherwise, I get notified after the fact.

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  4. Anonymous7/07/2009 7:56 AM

    Jim, the NNCO memo is not the entire memo. The names of people promoted have been removed. Here is the end portion of the memo:

    We’re also creating a position based in Newark to supervise features and niche content for all sites, including current and future glossy magazines. That position and others needed for this project are being posted by Human Resources.

    The scope of this project may make it difficult to fully comprehend at first. It’s important to understand that site information centers still remain and managing editors will still make decisions about what content their readers need. Now, they will get much more help to make it happen.

    Here’s a quick summary of the plan organized by the seven Information Center tasks developed by Gannett in 2006.

     Breaking news: Many sites rely on busy copy editor/paginators to post online at night. They are often unable to successfully manage breaking news unless top editors intervene. All sites lack early morning staff on weekends, which we can fix with centralized resources. More resources can also be dedicated to one community if needed for a major story.

     Databases: Most sites are struggling with databases outside of routine updates to basic databases. This plan creates opportunities for greater expertise to develop stories and provide quality databases to readers.

     Community Conversation: Provides dedicated online staff to coordinate social networking efforts and centralizes management of reader comments and abuse reports.

     Multimedia: Videos will still be captured from our TV partners and distributed to all sites. Local site videos will be largely limited to breaking news. Photo galleries remain No. 1 priority.

     Watchdog: Enhances capabilities by adding two enterprise and data reporters. Both will produce in-depth daily stories and projects of wide interest. They can also provide expert assistance to local site reporters as needed.

     Local: Maintains local managing editors and reporters with increased focus on local news and less on production issues. Reporters will no longer need to fill copy desk shifts. Our local content should grow and improve in quality.

     Niche: Creates one position to produce write and edit features copy for all platforms, including current Newark magazine and possibly other magazines.

    I hope you share my enthusiasm for this endeavor. If you have questions, I encourage you to see your site’s editor or publisher or myself. I look forward to sharing our successes with you in the near future.

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  5. Anonymous7/07/2009 8:23 AM

    How many jobs were filled leading up to this?
    What strategy did ANYONE deploy to consider ways to retain journalists making truly valuable contributions that would have been willing to take a sales position, copy editor, other beat reporting, editing job or inserting spot to retain benefits versus getting laid off.
    What leadership position were filled that will result in multiple layoffs in other departments?

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  6. Anonymous7/07/2009 8:24 AM

    Any news in Cincy yet? I read the note that said some cuts wouldn't happen until next week. Anyone have a clue why?

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  7. Anonymous7/07/2009 8:41 AM

    If Gannett would open their eyes there is millions of dollars waiting to be saved....but they are so old school it's not even funny, all they know is cut in the wrong places. If I could only get to the right person I could save them 20 mil easy in the first 12 months, I e-mailed the corp. office using my Gannett account and never got a reply back!!! Not even a auto reply saying thank you very much!!!

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  8. Anonymous7/07/2009 8:44 AM

    7:48 - Pensacola sucks

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  9. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:30 AM

    CONFIDENTIAL MEMO

    All Senior Staff: Let the carnage begin.

    Signed

    Gracia Martore
    Acting Everything

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  10. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:39 AM

    Don't be so hard on the Cherry Hill Publisher. He's probably on the list.

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  11. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:46 AM

    Very doubtful that Cherry HIll publisher is on the list. He fits the mold of a Gannett publisher.

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  12. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:48 AM

    It should be interesting to see who on the advertising side at CP gets the boot . . . so many good people gone and the dregs stay on . . . as a former employee it is one of the worst run newspapers I have ever been involved with. Got to the point where you couldn't even talk to your co-workers because you didn't "look productive". I thought that was how they treated grade schoolers . . . sorry, I guess we were grade schoolers in their book . . .

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  13. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:54 AM

    Unfortunately, today's a good day for layoffs since the media will be focused on the MJ funeral and corporate would hope to bury the news, no pun intended. (One radio company shamefully laid off dozens the day of Obama's inauguration). And perception is everything: it's probable that the additional 1000+ additional rumored layoffs will roll out over the coming weeks in smaller clusters, to lessen the chances that the dots will be connected publicly by the media, advertisers and Wall Street. Particularly with this blog going away and nothing else existing that's so established a central gathering spot.

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  14. Jim7/07/2009 9:55 AM

    Jeepers: I'm starting to think Laura Hollingsworth has broken out her Bob Hope Chrysler Classic memento nine iron to keep a lid on layoff leaks at The Des Moines Register.

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  15. Anonymous7/07/2009 9:56 AM

    People, make sure to take your Rolodexes home, print out or forward all email address books and Web bookmarks, and take home all directories you have containing names, phone #s and email addresses of contacts in government and industry. You may be able to leverage your journalistic standing and beat coverage into a job. I did and I know of others who did. Sure, no one is hiring right now, but they do become interested when facing the possibility of hiring veteran reporters in new capacities. There is great respect out here for the information-gathering, -processing and -reporting/summarizing prowess of reporters, mainly those who are well-connected in politics, government and business, but also those with CAR and FOIA skills. This is how you will want to sell yourself. People will create positions to suit your skills. The jobs won't be advertised anywhere.

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  16. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:02 AM

    7:56 am - So... who were the people promoted? I can just guess. But I don't see anything wrong with providing that info here.

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  17. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:06 AM

    Jim, why the comment on Hollingsworth? What have you heard about her? I work at The Register. It's been quite here, no idea when they'll announce cuts.

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  18. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:06 AM

    If Pensacola cuts fewer than 17, let's be sure to count the 80-something they shoved out the door a month or so ago when they shut down their press. Word is, they've also put their downtown office building/land up for sale.

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  19. Jim7/07/2009 10:10 AM

    The Hollingsworth remark was a reference to her participation in that Bob Dickey golfing boondoggle in Palm Springs, Calif.

    Someone list below, please, all the net new business she brought in since then.

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  20. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:24 AM

    The best is yet to come when the changes are presented to Wall Street on the 15. Linda Greiwe's 10 papers one editor plan, sharing content while each paper ads a local spin should attract some attention. Wall Street is smart enough to question the quality and value of the product from a cookie cutter mold. Advertisers too will wonder and question what will most likely be more lost circ and ad revenue.

    Best of all, watch how Gannett heralds this new changes are great paths to the future ignoring the demise of each paper's local value (which is it's strength!).

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  21. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:32 AM

    Still now word on severance terms? I guess the company is going to be as transparent on this as they are everything else they do.

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  22. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:46 AM

    The NNCO structure looks like something Gannett will implement across the entire chain. Ohio is maybe just the Beta version.

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  23. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:50 AM

    Can anyone provide insight into the layoff numbers in Tallahassee?

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  24. Anonymous7/07/2009 10:58 AM

    "Linda Greiwe's 10 papers one editor plan, sharing content while each paper ads a local spin should attract some attention."

    That's how radio does it. The theory is "everyone loves hamburgers so musically let's serve them nothing but hamburgers. Some may have ketchup on them but mostly it's just plain hamburger."

    That's why from market to market pretty much every station plays the same songs, uses the same liners with virtually no accounting for regional taste.

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  25. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:00 AM

    Blogger Jim said...

    The Hollingsworth remark was a reference to her participation in that Bob Dickey golfing boondoggle in Palm Springs, Calif.

    Someone list below, please, all the net new business she brought in since then.

    7/07/2009 10:10 AM

    Oh, Jim, you'll never learn. She RETAINED business by joining in the golf outing. If it weren't for her and Bob's selfless participation, the company would have lost, literally, unknowable amounts of revenue, and then they would have had to layoff more employees and... wait, what?

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  26. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:00 AM

    Any truth to the Lansing 35 numbers yet?

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  27. Jim7/07/2009 11:10 AM

    D'oh! So, *that's* why the Bobster got the $200k home relocation goody bag, plus the tax gross-up -- and the size-XXXXX-L pink golf shorts!

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  28. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:11 AM

    7:34 -- I don't know about you, but my Web mail malfunctions at least 30% of the time.

    I'm not sure I'd use that system, as you might get all worked up over nothing. And, as our IT friend mentioned, you could log in and still get the boot.

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  29. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:18 AM

    7:34 a.m. That's not true that you could rely on your Webmail access as a cue to whether you're laid off.

    I was laid off in December and used my work e-mail on my work computer to send myself all sorts of things. My colleague could actually access his e-mail for several days afterwords (I didn't even try).

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  30. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:19 AM

    Funny how industry leaders are recognized for "best practices" and best-of-class management, yet news industry "leader" Gannett is best known for worst practices and third-class management. Now would be the perfect time to change all of that. Replace upper management, replace most publishers and editors, eliminate all of the ridiculous initiatives mandated by corporate, and instill a meritocracy that rewards actual competence and encourages feedback from all levels. Hiring Tom Peters or another top-flight management consultant would make for a good start.

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  31. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:19 AM

    10:58 -- I've said for a long time that newspapers are going the same route radio did.

    Now, two things to consider.

    1) With the exception of a handful of coveted positions, radio stations pay crap ... even when compared to newspapers.

    2) Most radio stations are crap, thanks to the homogenized format. That's why iPods have turned them into secondary listens for many, many people.

    Look for the same trends in papers, at least the ones Gannett runs.

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  32. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:28 AM

    Meanwhile ... the stock slips ever closer to $2 range.

    Glad we have publishers who don't suspect any more cuts.

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  33. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:31 AM

    9:48's comment: "Got to the point where you couldn't even talk to your co-workers because you didn't "look productive". I thought that was how they treated grade schoolers . . . sorry, I guess we were grade schoolers in their book . . ." Well the atmosphere under this now former AD was horrendous! She did treat certain people like trash and great disdain, however, she hired a group of "grade schoolers" some of whom she elevated into management/supervisor positions. These are the ones who could sit about doing nothing and wasting money and sales opportunity. These are the ones that need to go ASAP. This person destroyed the morale of what was once a very good sales department and drove away all of the true professionals. Glad she's gone, but the rubble remains, for now, hopefully

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  34. Anonymous7/07/2009 11:55 AM

    11:00 - What have you heard about Lansing?

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  35. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:19 PM

    Wonder how many recent "ring-winners" will get the axe this week? Chop that group and we could save lots of jobs of real workers...

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  36. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:35 PM

    Doesn't seem like much is happening anywhere today.

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  37. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:37 PM

    The calm before the storm?

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  38. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:40 PM

    what a brutal company. fucking nuts

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  39. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:46 PM

    what scum

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  40. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:48 PM

    keep up the pain killers dubrow it's quite trendsetting in the land of gannett. The frigin bastards could start their own drug company

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  41. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:48 PM

    11:18: "That's not true that you could rely on your Webmail access as a cue to whether you're laid off."

    Yeah you can, but not in the way you would think.

    I was laid off while on "vacation". Naturally, it was one of those Gannett pseudo-vacations we're all accustomed to, where you have to connect and remain available.

    I knew I was gone when the 45 e-mails per day from my director came to a stop around Wednesday that week.

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  42. Jim7/07/2009 12:53 PM

    Lovin' *my* morphine auto-push, discretely carried in my iCase messenger bag! COBRA covers? Oooops!

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  43. Anonymous7/07/2009 12:59 PM

    yeah really Jim you know the story.. we all do
    hey listen buddy good luck . great job. here.. you did well.. no matter what the bashers.. say..

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  44. Anonymous7/07/2009 1:10 PM

    I can hear management's usual cry when layoffs are pending, " I need Vodka!" Such a compassionate bunch.

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  45. Anonymous7/07/2009 1:15 PM

    A leader on morphine? geez or should I say Jesus!

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  46. Anonymous7/07/2009 1:30 PM

    1:10 p.m. Oh, but they are. Just try asking the HR director who cried while laying people off, and the executive editor in the same office who complained it was a very, very hard day for him.

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  47. Anonymous7/07/2009 1:43 PM

    That vodka cry must be coming from the Lansing crowd. Its a regular mantra. Vodka to "look" weepy after laying off people you've secretly wanted gone for a while - and vodka to celebrate another day of employment for themselves. Question: Whats your plan when you don't have anyone to blame it on anymore?

    That OC makes me sick.

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  48. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:02 PM

    Hey, Jim, according to your list, more than 300 people have been let go so far in the current cuts. Any chance of finding out what severance terms they were offered? (It'd be one more scoop for you.)I'm guessing they'll be pretty much the same across the board.

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  49. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:12 PM

    Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) today named Robin Pence vice president of Corporate Communications responsible for media and public relations, employee communications and the company’s Internet and Intranet sites. Pence replaces Tara Connell, who was earlier named vice president of ContentOne, a company-wide initiative to enhance and improve the way Gannett gathers and delivers the news and information customers want.
    Gracia C. Martore, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gannett, said, "Robin’s deep experience in communications in the private and public sectors makes her the consummate communications professional. I am confident that Robin and her staff will do a terrific job in communicating Gannett’s story to our employees and to the world outside the company."
    Pence has been in the communications profession for more than 20 years. Most recently, she led international communications for the global power company, AES. Pence’s past experience includes senior communications positions at Sprint and the Federal Communications Commission and, earlier in her career, she served as a Congressional press secretary.
    Gannett Co., Inc. is an international news and information company operating on multiple platforms including the Internet, mobile, newspapers, magazines and TV stations. Gannett is an Internet leader with hundreds of newspaper and TV Web sites; CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s top employment site; USATODAY.com; and more than 80 local MomsLikeMe.com sites. Gannett publishes 84 daily U.S. newspapers, including USA TODAY, the nation’s largest-selling daily newspaper, and more than 700 magazines and other non-dailies including USA WEEKEND. Gannett also operates 23 television stations in 19 U.S. markets. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom’s second largest regional newspaper company with 17 daily paid-for titles, more than 200 weekly newspapers, magazines and trade publications, and a network of Web sites.

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  50. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:15 PM

    I've heard the number of newsroom folks on the list in Lansing is above 8.

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  51. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:15 PM

    Gannett - Robin Pence Named Gannett Vice President of Corporate Communications replacing Tara Connell

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  52. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:25 PM

    A leader on morphine? Gannett could have saved big bucks if they would have gotten rid of the the prescription drug induced loser executives company wide. Everytime the cow in our HR broke something including a fingernail she'd pop something.

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  53. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:28 PM

    musical chairs is about to begin!

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  54. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:32 PM

    Robin Pence announcement- http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090707006174&newsLang=en

    Is this not the most amazing announcement timing? Editors telling people they're surprised by the firing they're doing, informed employees leaking news to the blog weeks before acknowledged by corporate then poorly communicated through the ranks. All this under Tara, good job Tara. Now focus your time, efforts and obvious skills on ContentOne which you announced some time ago and still nobody understands. Go get 'em, make that ContentOne the ContentOne we all know it can be whatever that is. One content, indivisible under God with liberty and justice for all. Say amen.

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  55. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:37 PM

    Gannettoid has a rumor that the Lansing number is 35

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  56. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:38 PM

    "I am confident that Robin and her staff will do a terrific job in communicating Gannett’s story to our employees and to the world outside the company."

    Oh just barf. Why would it start now?

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  57. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:42 PM

    Above eight in in the Lansing newsroom? Wow ... I don't know who's left to cut there. The content has already suffered drastically.

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  58. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:49 PM

    Wow, Pence is a right-wing Republican attack dog who once was Al D'Amato's hatchet girl, and worked for a right-wing Missouri congressman. So what does this mean? Is GCI now coming out as a more Republican than it has been already? Stay tuned.

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  59. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:52 PM

    AD from cherry hill gone. Oh happy day!

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  60. Anonymous7/07/2009 2:57 PM

    If you thought the corporate campaign against this blog was intense, wait until Robin Pence stirs up her campaign. Gannettoid beware.

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  61. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:02 PM

    1:10 & 1:30.... at the CN/HNT the only ones who cry are the dumped employees. The publisher acts like a stoic undertaker and the HR person just hurries it along so she can have another smoke.

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  62. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:17 PM

    2:02 PM... the 300 number is just from the publishers sending out letters telling how many their papers will be laying off. The actual people being layed off actually haven't been told yet they have been layed off.

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  63. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:21 PM

    I was once on the Lansing OC not many years ago. I got out - thank god and went to a company where people and talent were actually appreciated. But I had never worked (and never will again) for such a callous bunch - starting with Michael Kane - who made it quite clear that if you weren't one of the one's who 'got it' you were just tolerated. Not thanked for all your hard work - efforts that actual mattered but the work wasn't sexy, it was just important. This isn't at all surprising to watch the decline of LSJ - get out if you are still there. Please.

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  64. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:21 PM

    Pence is the former Robin Heidi Ehrlich, daughter of Bernard G. Ehrlich, who was convicted of racketeering with former Representative Mario Biaggi in the Wedtech scandal.

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  65. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:22 PM

    In the age of these layoffs, why does Gannett need a President of Corporate Communications? Why isn't Tara's former position kept dark like so many local positions across GCI?

    How many people are getting layoff notices to pay for Robin Pence?

    More proof corporate is out of touch with its own business - the people their decisions truly affect.

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  66. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:41 PM

    Un-f*ng-believable. Corporate orders layoffs across the company, then hires a new $150,000-a-year corporate flak. Tell me what does the public relations officer for this company do? Not answer questions, from looking at the responses Tara made to this blog or to other media inquiries, as I read the stories about these layoffs.

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  67. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:48 PM

    The former ME at Cherry Hill walked in the building this afternoon - she was laid off in December - what's this all about?

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  68. Anonymous7/07/2009 3:51 PM

    Everytime the cow in our HR broke something including a fingernail she'd pop something.

    Well it is nice to see a professional woman called a cow. What a jerk. I am ashamed to call you one of my peers. And by the way I am not a troll or a woman. I'm just a guy who can spot a jerk when he sees one.

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  69. Jim7/07/2009 3:53 PM

    WTF: Communications "profession"?

    I say Pence is getting around $250K -- and like Dubow and the rest, in last year's revised bonus plan -- NO WORTHLESS GCI STOCK.

    Almost -- almost -- tempted to stick around a few more months to bust her down to a prison P.R. job in Arkansas. But Sparky's now in a holding pattern 35,000 miles above. And he's mouthing something from his window seat.

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  70. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:09 PM

    There must be a way to classify the Company as "Creating a hostile working environment."

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  71. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:11 PM

    I left a copy editing job by choice end of last year. The BS and stress was intolerable. Never worked at a place that treated the best people like crap and the long-term slackers like gold, just because they were long timers. The paper is now a shadow of its former self, with advertiser suck-up being not so subtly stuck IN THE NEWS STORIES. Every good worker left is looking for other jobs. It's painful watching the slow death. And yes, like someone else said, they treated us like children who were "insubordinate" if we pointed out a better way to do things. Someone should write a book.

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  72. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:19 PM

    Ah come on Jim. Stick around. Please.

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  73. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:22 PM

    Professional woman? I said a COW. And excuse me but you're not one of my peers.

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  74. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:27 PM

    Be nice to Robin, or she will get one of her Guido buddies from New York to come down and break your legs.

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  75. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:40 PM

    I don't understand why we've heard nothing from our publisher since the memo came, and even then it was one sentence. NOTHING.

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  76. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:48 PM

    My publisher can't say anything until the local vp/president gives the word. She can't give the word til the group president says ok. She can't say boo until the community division president thumbs up, and he can't do that until corporate green flags it..... who is it that finally gets to say 'FIRE' and push the plunger?

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  77. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:51 PM

    bullshit already. start the freakin process tired of waiting for my fate! cincy still no news

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  78. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:52 PM

    Everyone at Az Republic quaking in their shoes. Best scenario is to let go of middle-management honks who go to work to eat their lunch. Many good foot soldiers have to pick up slack for incompetent managers.

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  79. Anonymous7/07/2009 4:53 PM

    "Very doubtful that Cherry HIll publisher is on the list. He fits the mold of a Gannett publisher".

    walt and tom are both tools.

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  80. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:05 PM

    is tom still doing the gardening too? pulling shrubs? ?

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  81. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:05 PM

    It's strangely quiet out there. Wonder if it's because the company hired to prepare severance packages hasn't finished their homework?

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  82. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:05 PM

    Tom is an idiot

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  83. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:10 PM

    Gannett is a publicly held company, it shouldn't be difficult to find Ms Pences' pay but it's also not fair to pick on her for simply taking a job. She's done nothing to anybody and I suspect will be on a very short leash. I think the reason for her hire is it provides an excuse for why Tara hasn't done anything with ContentOne. While it does sound odd to suggest she's been too busy with communications to work on ContentOne, it may be one of Robin's first press releases- "Tara did a wonderful job overseeing communications and ContentOne and can now focus exclusively on ContentOne". Right now Robin's sitting with Tara saying, "you mean all papers will have the same content?"

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  84. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:15 PM

    Jim.

    I have been cheering you from the sidelines. Will miss my daily dose of coffee and GB. Prayers go out to those at the Az Republic who will lose their jobs tomorrow.

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  85. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:18 PM

    If I didn't care about my fellow workers who will still have a job getting stuck putting the work out, I'd just stop working tomorrow until it starts. I'm so sick of waiting. Every day I drive in feeling sick to my stomach. The stress is getting to us all. DO SOMETHING ALREADY. It's to the point where knowing you've lost your job is better than wondering about it this long.

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  86. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:22 PM

    Jim - I'd like to thank you for the Gannett Blog. It has in effect allowed everyone concerned to get some actual - and factual - news in an almost timely manner. Certainly before the a-holes at corporate would ever allow. I truly hate that your shutting it down. It has been the ONLY place people can go to in order to get any answers... been to Gannettoid... not really impressed overall - if for no other reason than the fact that you help people get information that they desperately need... please keep this going until there's a turn-around... either way... real progress or corporate bankruptcy. Until either of those things happen - many people's lives continue to hang in the balance... and you're there to help them understand whats around the corner... and help them cope. Nobody else, anywhere, can do that. Thanks for all that you've done for the rank and file.

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  87. Jim7/07/2009 5:31 PM

    5:10 pm. I'm so glad I don't have to break in another spinmeister.

    1. Why do you think we call them flacks?

    2. If it's Pence's first press release, she's already grossly overpaid.

    3. Has Pence ever set foot in a newsroom, other than to promote one of her employers?

    4. Did she not recognize the huge hole in the release: Her missing age.

    5. Has she ever kept a blog? (No -- a Weblog, not a hog!)

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  88. Anonymous7/07/2009 5:32 PM

    I was notified on August 8 2008 that my department would be "consolidated" into the new credit and collections service center in springfield. The conversion date has been changed 5 times. The most recent date given was August 25th. thats over a year of waiting around to get the axe droped. They dont want anyone in my department to leave until they are ready, so they have stung us along by saying that they will be keeping one, of the four of us. I doubt they keep anyone. Its just them looking out for them. Its total BS. Whatever.

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  89. Jim7/07/2009 6:56 PM

    Regarding the comment by the second Anonymous@3:21 p.m., regarding her father, this New York Times story provides important context.

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