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I'd like to broaden the discussion about USA Today's unfolding reorganization plan to include other Gannett newspapers.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is USAT attempting something that is unique to its better-staffed, national market position? Or could this new form of organization be a future template for Gannett's smaller community dailies?
I have this sneaking suspicion... USAT's ad reorg is ultimately going to shove sales pressure out to the Community division.
ReplyDeleteJust as reps are expected to sell Yahoo adspace to local customers, at the expense of local websites, ad directors will get the word that X dollars from each site will have to be sold into USAT. Initially the deal will be sugared with higher stay-behind revenue, but once there's a feel for how much a site can send to USAT, the revenue share will drop while the expectations will increase.
Used to be we tried to sell customers stuff that was actually going to be effective for them, so that we could grow together. Now we sell them whatever shit we have in front of us, and hope they'll forget by next month.
Friday morning, an email came out from GPC saying nearly a thousand ads had not been touched, missing pieces. They still hadn't proofed out all ads for the weekend.
ReplyDeleteReno is live today. We're going to miss dearly the decades of experience we've lost.
Allowing local papers to join in USA Today's transition creates local competitors for USAT. For that reason alone, I don't think corporate will allow the community papers to join in because it will take money away from USAT. If I read anything into the grand strategy being put out by the Crystal Towers, it is to allow the community papers to die off.
ReplyDeleteUSA Today has no circulation growth and no revenue growth. That's because they have no weekend and no Sunday circulation.
ReplyDeleteHow are the community dailies doing with their Sundays?
Good idea Jim,to find out the over all effects
ReplyDeleteof this re-organization throughout the Gannett
kingdom.
I would think that dialy and weekly newspapers nationwide will be totally transformed into
smaller yet, operations.
I am surprised that we haven't yet heard on this site,of other papers that have begun
the process.
7:45 AM -- You haven't seen the worst of it. Welcome to our hell.
ReplyDeleteThe following appeared on 8/30/10 in Phila Inquirer website. May be of interest because the same union mentioned represents drivers at Gannett's Cherry Hill Courier-Post:
ReplyDeleteThe drivers who deliver The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News voted overwhelmingly Sunday to reject a tentative contract agreement reached between their union, Teamsters Local 628, and Philadelphia Media Network, the newspapers' new owner.
The no vote - 182-3 - was a setback for Philadelphia Media Network, which is trying to reach contract agreements with 14 unions by Tuesday. That is the date that had been scheduled to bring the company out of bankruptcy and complete the sale of The Inquirer, the Daily News, and the website Philly.com.
Regarding weekend and Sunday circulation and the fact USA Today doesn't have it now, this plan provides for that since it envisions a 24/7 operation. How they will do this with 130 fewer employees remains to be seen.
ReplyDeleteSt Cloud times to find out possible lay offs in area of creative design. All employees had to re apply for their jobs. Will notify those who did not make the cut the day after labor day. Long term marketing director just left the paper. The world is crashing in around us.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have the Teamsters voting down contracts, it's another reason why shifting readers to a paid-internet model makes so much sense. Philly has always been a hard-nosed pro-union town (they even forced Carrefore stores out of the market because of non-union employees) but the Teamsters union members are just accelerating the trend to a no-print world.
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ReplyDeleteAnyone taken a look at the new deal in the 401k self-directed brokerage account? It's Charles Schwab replacing Hewitt. Pretty stiff arbitration clauses in there... one of those take it or leave it and shove it deals.
ReplyDelete8/30 7:45 PM
ReplyDeleteHow did it all turn out? Did the ads get completed? Were they published or were there big holes in the papers? How did the ads look? 1000 incomplete ads on a Friday morning doesn't sound too good. When GPC can't handle the load, does 2AdPro kick in help or are we not using them at all at this point?
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ReplyDeleteIf there are layoffs..would they happen before 4th quarter? My location has a mandatory meeting at 4 today and there have been many close door meetings.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what kind of timetable they are using for consolidation? There was a revised schedule on the Gannettoid site last November, is that still relevant?
ReplyDeleteIf designers are reapplying for "their" jobs what will they do? Design? Dispatch? Both?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAnyone taken a look at the new deal in the 401k self-directed brokerage account? It's Charles Schwab replacing Hewitt. Pretty stiff arbitration clauses in there... one of those take it or leave it and shove it deals.
8/30/2010 11:41 PM
I received a form letter from Gannett informing me that ACS (a xerox company) was taking over the 401k at the end of September. I don't like that and being a Former employee I will see if I can keep my 401k at Hewitt or find another company to maintain my 401k. I know quite a few fellow former Gannettoids that moved their 401k elsewhere when they were laid off, so I have a good selection to choose from. I read some about ACS and I really don't like it... ACS is does a lot of things and finances is only one of them. I want a company that only does finances and does it well!
Here! Here! to that, KrayolaKat!!
ReplyDeleteGet your stuff out of Hewitt at the first sign of a downturn at Gannett. Ex Tribune employees can't withdraw or rollover their cash balance accounts, because Hewitt is not comfortable with the funding level even though the plan is about 95% funded. They'll let you take monthly distributions but claim they are allowed to eliminate the lump sum since it is only an "option" and rollover is the same as lump sum.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have an educated guess on how many of the pending 130 layoffs at USAT will come from the newsroom in McLean? I recall in the past that it was announced how many hits editorial was going to take. Why the secrecy this time? Just seems to create more unnecessary anxiety. I mean if it's like five layoffs, then I think most people could sleep easy. If it's 100, well, that's another story.
ReplyDeletePossibility of printing weekend edition is slim. Not enough retail sales to support advertising
ReplyDeleteSign that the Apocalypse is upon us. ... The Journal News is running a "Vote for the Best Beach Body" photo contest on its homepage.
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ReplyDeleteUSA Today made headlines last week with its reorganization plans. Today the Deseret News in Salt Lake City announced its own reorganization and will move in with corporate cousin KSL-TV.
ReplyDelete(HT: TVNewsCheck)
Memo: The Washington Times could be sold for $1
ReplyDeleteJim, how about a thread to advise people on what options they have to move their 401K elsewhere if they don't want ACS? I think many people may not be too knowledgable about this.
ReplyDeleteNew (old) topic: USA Today and Gannett -- and all newspapers -- find themselves trying to survive a pretty disastrous situation. Their only hope: to act like a startup. Think about it. A startup thrives in a changing world. This is a time when newspapers really can remake themselves but only if they actually start thinking like startups. They need to be innovative, nimble, responsive, driven -- and yes, smart. But that's just one attribute. Right. The very culture, the very fiber that makes USAT what it is, makes it almost impossible to change.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that the people who run the place are smart. But that's really all they've got. USAT culture is stagnant at best. At worst, it's one that squashes innovation. Ideas are ignored. Critics are shunned (and fired and laid off and generally punished), managers are scared of making the wrong decisions, reporters learned long ago that good ideas get buried, etc. And anyone who has tried to get anything done there can tell you that the wheels of bureaucracy churn very, very, very slowly. Without mentioning specific names, the editors talk about fostering innovation and good reporting but time and time again, accept mediocre reporting. It isn't so much that the reporters are bad or lazy or that the editors are thick. It has to do with human nature. When humans are repeatedly beaten down, guess what? They stop trying. If hiring a 29 year old or 99 year old will help, then great. But I doubt any one person can turn things around. Just think what his first day will be like. Meetings. Then more meetings. Then even more meetings.... and so it goes.
Two more departures from USA Today this week: deputy managing editor Phil Pruitt and a page designer in Life.
ReplyDeleteThings that maybe someone could help me understand:
How can management spend weeks hanging everyone out to dry with a transformation plan that is short on details but long on protecting upper management.
How many more editors will remain employed at the expense of rank and filers.
Why no jobs are being posted, allowing people to express interest in new openings.
1:32 p.m.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about?? I hope it's the creative department on the ad side because no-one in the newsroom was notified that they had to re-apply for their jobs. It discusses applying for jobs in a handout we got from corporate a while ago, but I don't think it meant apply for your own job, I took it as apply for a job at the design center. Maybe I'm just stupid ...
P.S. The long-term marketing director needed to leave his strategies were flawed and opinions were worse. Rumor has it he was one of the main players in deciding what the Sunday redesign was going to look like. How should he have any weight on what goes on in the newsroom???
This web site was born out of pain, anger and vengeance…it is like a bad tooth….you are aware of it and when you touch… it causes pain. We were happy to work and get paid with Gannett…now there is a great evolution occurring within Gannett in order to survive Gannett must adapt…To those who remain…adapt and survive and go on to better things with Gannett…to those who have parted from Gannett…adapt and survive and go on to new things…this website offers no solace to any reader…only pain…it is like a bad reality show..and for me it will now become a former addiction…this place brings nothing positive to our lives
ReplyDeleteGlimpse the future for GCI, and look at what is happening in Salt Lake City, where the Deseret News just dumped its editor and publisher, and announced it is getting rid of 43 percent of its staff. This is a newspaper underwritten by the Mormon church. An incredible development, which may have implications for Detroit, since the rival SLC Tribune is owned by Billy Dean Singeton. Say what you want about Billy Dean, but he certainly is lucky and the cards are still coming his way.
ReplyDeleteThis all sounds like maybe the Crystal
ReplyDeleteTower leaders are not waiting for the fourth quarter to start the demolition.
The end of the third quarter is September 30th and it appears that September will be the
transformation month with the decisions for changes and layoffs firmly in place before 4th quarter begins.
Sounds like lots of turmoil everywhere!!!
ReplyDeleteIs the empire sinking ??
Good Luck everyone !!!
7:17: "go on to better things with Gannett…" right? Nothing better was happening that's why i left.
ReplyDeleteI know where they can save lots of money in Louisville. Dump Garson. What use is he. He retired years ago he is just hanging around collecting checks.
ReplyDeleteUSA TODAY got beat covering the Apple announcement today with WSJ's Digits including photos...
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/01/live-blogging-apples-big-event/
IF USAT wants to be #1 in breaking news, they've got to be better at it than anyone else.
When does the new day dawn?
11:26 if you really believe Garson needs to go then you really no credibility. Garson has always been pro employee and had still found a way to get the job done. If we had more people like him we'd be a stronger company. Say what you will about him, he has always been an employee advocate. Now if you are one those Union lemmings then you simply don't like any publisher but that's only if you are a lemming.
ReplyDeleteWe've been thinking about this all wrong. USA Today was founded by a dude who wanted to make newspapers more like TV. It worked. It was pretty. Stories were short and easy to read. McPaper is who USA Today was -- and still is. It's like it was practically designed for the Web where no one has any attention span. (Did you even get this far?). It should be wildly successful. Maybe the problem is that it's been trying to be something it isn't and will never be -- an edgy hard-hitting newspaper. Hey, it's McPaper. And McPaper should be yummy and fun. So maybe the editorial choices are just perfect. That darned news just depresses readers anyhow and then they won't buy stuff.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/08/30/daily33.html?ana=e_du_pap
ReplyDeleteusat.com gets beat on a lot of stories. Not hatin'...just sayin'...
ReplyDeleteUSAT no longer peddles fresh news, journalism, getting it first or getting it right. Didn't you hear? USAT is abandoning all those antiquated ideas. It's no longer a news organization. It's now a -- uh, well, I am not sure. I just know it's not a company that values editors, reporters and photographers. So getting beat is no big deal.
ReplyDelete8/21 1:25 You can do the math by reviewing Hillkirks number of news rings. That shoudl add up to 75 or 70 of the cuts being made in the newsroom.
ReplyDeleteSome managerial attention in Cincinnati is way overdue. Editor Tom Callinan was sent packing out of Phoenix and parked here for what looked to be a temporary assignment, but seven years later he's still here, still doesn't give a damn about the town and is still a stranger in the newsroom, shuffling from his corner office to news meetings and back again. The de facto ME is a sports person. The business editor is a sports person. The features editor is a copy editor. If we're ever going to become a distinguished source of information, be it in print or on the web, a house cleaning is majorly in order.
ReplyDeleteTop 50 companies in layoffs also had highest paid CEOs - Institute for Policy Studies CEO pay. Jim can you get the list? is Dubow on it?
ReplyDeleteIf you left Gannett, you can roll over your 401K into an IRA. And probably should, regardless of whether Hewitt stays or goes.
ReplyDeleteTransformation: all talk, no action. No plan, other than to protect the jobs of the favored few (editors). Covering breaking news like the competition? Why start now?
ReplyDelete"USA TODAY got beat covering the Apple announcement today with WSJ's Digits including photos..."
ReplyDeleteUm, jackass, please:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/09/apple-hosting-preview-event-in-san-francisco/1
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-09-02-applefirstlook02_ST_N.htm
How, exactly, does that constitute getting "beat"?
Oh, and as a follow-up to Mr. iPad: As of right now (1:19 a.m. on the East Coast), those two links I provided above are the No. 1 and No. 2 stories at usatoday.com in terms of traffic.
ReplyDeleteIsn't USAT following the Phoenix model, promoting a features person to run a newsroom?
ReplyDeleteSo what's going on with Tara Connell and Content One? I haven't heard about that in quite some time.
ReplyDeleteAre more papers using USAT pages? How will this "reorganization" of USAT impact Content One, or will it?
Just wondering....
1:18 to a journalist - beat is to get it FIRST.
ReplyDeleteNot best - First. Something that in the web world is kind of meaningless.
Jim meant this thread to try to find info
ReplyDeleteon smaller,daily and weekly community papers and the trickle down effects of over all greatly falling revenues.
The smaller pubs have to be greatly effected
as the push to cut expenses moves forward.
Does anyone know of a weekly or daily being
closed or consolidated with a sister pub?
Will they fly below the radar and just be left alone to die a natural death, rather than being
shoved over the cliff.
Have the layoffs hit these smaller pubs as well? Anyone know?
Usa Today Pages are being used at our site for at least 6 or 7 months now. Lots of associated press articles. Done away with a lot of the home grown local news reporters along with the Local news coverage.
ReplyDeleteI heard that Phoenix may be in for a huge layoff situation. The place is still fat with mgmt.
ReplyDeleteThe "blue tower" in downtown Phoenix is a mini crystal palace. All managers have offices now, so as to not associate to closely with the peons. I go in to work everyday and can't believe what I see. What is funny is that there is more mgmt staff now in advertising than there was 6 to 8 years ago, when the place was printing money. The new classified director had to have a senior manager hired because of his position, he can't have lower level managers reporting to him - what a piece of work that guy is...... I can go on and on but 12:53pm is right on target. The place is ripe for the pickens.
ReplyDeleteWe need more information than that, 12:53 p.m. You heard from whom, or from where?
ReplyDelete1:18 & 12:53 Yes, Yes, Yes and OMG.... you are so right. I have been there many years now too and can't believe what I see everyday. It's as if upper mgmt (senior all they way to the publisher - we know who he is JZ) has there head in the sand.... or so it appears that way. The fact about the Arizona Republic is that it brings in revenue on name alone, there is no other real paper in Phx, so even if you had little to no sales staff just ad entry people, the overall revenue picture would be about the same. In fact the profit would be better because even though the revenue might drop some, you would be without tons of over paid managers basically working on projects that go nowhere. Trust me I know of what I speak, I am extremely close the revenue numbers at that paper and it is shocking what is going on.
ReplyDeleteJim, this is 12:53 and I still work there, lets say that I am privy to upper level meetings and attend some, I am a senior mgr. Understandably I can't give my name, but some initials of individuals in the meetings are JZ & KC. I suspect that I probably won't be there by the end of the year, I am one of those managers given projects to do which basically just fill my day until I can go home, I know nothing will come of them.
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ReplyDeleteI'm a journalist. I know what you meant. But I don't see how the Wall Street Journal "beat" us when their reporter was live-blogging the same press conference, at the same exact time, as USAT's reporter. I didn't check the exact timestamps, so, yeah, perhaps WSJ's first post went up first. But is that really the best you got?
Back to the community papers .
ReplyDeleteI have heard that many smaller pubs are being
eliminated completely and consolidated or condensed into skeletons of their former self.
More when I find out more.
Is there anyone else who has heard of this ?
On top of things...6 hours after Coast Guard announces the oil sheen they thought they spotted near the oil rig explosion really didn't exist, the top story on a Wisconsin Gannett newspaper was still going with the "Update: Oil Sheen spreading" as its top web story. Up-to-date and accurate don't matter. It's all about the paycheck, baby, and when my daily 8-hours are in, it's out the door.
ReplyDeleteGive 'em hell 3:29. Nothing is good for some of these doom and gloomers.
ReplyDeleteI work on the Circulation side of things and of course would like the printed newspaper continue to be a success. You cannot have the price increases in single copy and home delivery and cut content and expect to grow.The newspapers that went to 75 cents lost 20% of sales $1.00 lost 36 %. That is a lot of circulation that you will not get back. plus an inferior product.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the announcement of five NJ papers being consolidated to one at the Asbury Park Press. The merger should be soon.
ReplyDeleteDetroit News going online only! Stay tuned!
ReplyDelete9:31 a.m., well, it gives all the daytime editors something to do when they get to work in the morning! Fix whatever's been wrong all night on the Web site.
ReplyDeleteWell last night, Gannett shut the doors to its Hattiesburg, MS, USA Today site. Speaking from many years dedicated employment with this company and what they did to us last night with our final pay/bonus/severence...if you ever have the chance to work for them...my advice to you would be _ DON'T EVEN CONSIDER IT!!! They are such a hypocritical, lying, non-family oriented company that its pitiful! They royally screwed so many people last night, some of them that have been there 20+ years, only to benefit them in the long run! Severence....what the crap is this?...I have to file for and BE ELIGIBLE for unemployment before they will pay me what unemployment doesn't to make up my weekly pay! They are the ones who made our jobs disappear...they should be paying us the severence that we so rightly deserve...not just what unemployment doesn't pay us, which we all know doesn't amount to anything compared to a full time or part time check! And then they combine what was supposed to be our final 2 weeks of pay and our "BONUS" into one check...well, you know who got most of that and I can tell you it wasn't us! Gannett - I will be praying for you and whoever is making all these big decisions affecting the lives of so many people. The old saying goes and you know what, "what goes around, comes around," and I just pray that you and yours never have to go through the situation that so many of us are in right now!
ReplyDeleteFunny that people in upper management from the Arizona Republic are revealing the obvious truth........upper management are overstaffed and overpaid! They cut all the real workers also in the pressroom they are asking for another cut into our manning and a 12% pay cut!!! They are definately trying to break the unions in the arizona republic with extreme concessions. The mailroom gave them 240.00 a month back last contract and now they are back in contract talks and gannett wants more. Gannett is killing the golden goose "the Arizona Republic" used to be known as a "crown jewel" of newspapers and they are turning it into filthy place to work for.
ReplyDelete10:52 word has it they can't meet deadlines with the papers they are producing in NJ's "hub" and no one should expect any major changes soon.
ReplyDeleteBut that was 2 weeks ago I heard that, so who knows now?
Just an FYI for those who are a little concerned about their savings: when I was ousted, I immediately filed the paperwork to have my 401k and retirement package, or whatever they called it, (if you worked for Gannett for over 3 years, you were entitled to a percentage of your earnings. Don't know if they still offer it) I had no problem getting my money moved out of the company. I envisioned an Enron situation so I wanted it out there as quickly as possible. The money from my 401k was moved into my brokerage account within a short time; I received my "retirement" check not much later. It was a very smooth transaction. Also note that you don't have to have your 401k with the company (I don't know if they still match it or not). You can start a 401k with a brokerage firm. These jokers can't even run a newspaper business; I wasn't going to let them handle my hard earned money. They are businessmen. Not newspaper people. If they would've been silent investors, half of our newspapers would still be in business. You can't operate the whole conglomerate as one business; each newspaper and it's territory have totally different situations. I wish they would've realized that. If they would've backed off, do they realize how much more money we could've made for them with our own individual structures?
ReplyDeleteRich Ramhoff out as publisher in Palm Springs:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mydesert.com/article/20100903/BUSINESS/100903025/Desert+Sun+publisher+Richard+Ramhoff+reassigned
Just a little fyi...... did you you know that all of the execs on the 10th floor at the az republic have 2 flat screens in their offices, one to watch tv the other as their computer. It is an old boys club with KC as the old woman member. Overpaid is an understatement. JZ is over 400K a year and basically does nothing and nobody ever sees the man, while the place is sinking into despair
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ReplyDeleteHow long is USAT's brain trust going to drag out the anxiety/mystery about the pending layoffs? We don't even know where the cuts are going to occur yet. Why announce layoffs are coming and then let people flounder in worry for weeks? What purpose does that serve? I know management here doesn't give a crap about people, but how about at least pretending to be a little sensitive?
ReplyDeleteGosh, if anyone on the outside is considering ever working here, think long and hard about it. Look at how this company has treated loyal and successful employees in the last three years. Yes, they might role out the red carpet for you now, but don't count on making a career out of this place.
Well, I'm one of many that lost their job in Hattiesburg, MS. And I must say, as one reader already has, that Gannett most definetly screwed all of us. They lied to all of us and then come down to tell us that there sorry that were losing our jobs as if nothing ever happened (As they eat our burgers that we grilled on our last day, although not once has Gannett cooked for us, certanly did not bother them to eat what we bought with our last paycheck). They are truly only concerned about them selves and noone else. I understand a corporation making a financial decision to close a site, but at least try to do it with a little taste and not bold face lie to every employee there. Well Gannett will never have me to worry about anymore.
ReplyDelete"Ramhoff, the top executive at The Desert Sun and mydesert.com since July 2008, is taking a new assignment within Gannett Co., the parent company of the Palm Springs media group."
ReplyDeleteThat's corporate code-speak for "We want to fire him but can't without a lawsuit threat so we're going to park him on the corporate tarmack in a holding pattern and give him some trivial tasks to do until we can figure out some shithole to relocate him to or figure out a way to can him."
I am bedeviled as to why they are asking the pressroom in the Arizona Republic as to why they are asking sooooo large concessions from the unions and it has finally dawned on me through your website. here we go! Roanald Reagan started the 401k plan so comapanies could get away from the fixed pensions plans of world war two type coporations and also so the common person would invest in wallstreet..........we did and here comes the second verse George w. Bush, a trickle down economic junkie, trying to do away with the "entitlement society" meaning trying to trash social security and other Roosevelt goverment programs was part of the republican solution! So heres the kicker, the real greedy coporations have stopped the typical vested pensions plans and froze them because you have a 401k plan right? Well the corporations are privy to how much you are putting into the 401k plan and they match it! So this is what they are considering "disposable income" you consider it as your retirement savings. They don't care about you retireing in gannett they want your retirement or the amount in your department's average means you as a department are overpaid because you put too much in your retirement................hence CEO and corporate greed.They are penalizing you for saving and exasperating the downfall of the economy. They have records for all the amounts everyone is contributing and we are all fair game in the last greedy bastard standing! I truly believe this was planned to do away with fixed contributions for retirement just like back in the early 80"s fixed credit card rates were trashed for "adjustable" and teaser rates with high defaults. The greed of the upper class is unfathomable and the ones in Gannett and across this country need their nuts cut off!! In phoenix they are asking 12% pay cuts and this is unbeliveable with the Ceo making a raise of 17% on the backs of laid off and furloughed people. In catholic school I was taught that was a "mortal sin" to cause pain on the masses for your own self advancement. And he makes more than the Ceo of "BP oil". If the president doesn't step forward to curtail such unjustices the american outsourced and underpaid workers will and the corporations will fail and fall to the wayside for their shortsided self advancement!
ReplyDelete11:26 - "We're taking you from The Desert and putting you in Virginia, but then you have a fabulous opportunity in Guam six months later, followed by Lafayette, then the other Lafayette.... "
ReplyDeleteIt's not constructive discharge unless there is a plan, and no judge in the land would ever convict Gannett of having a plan for anything.
All of us here know how cruel,insensitive
ReplyDeleteand just plain mean the Gannett machine is.
The Gannett employee is absolutely nothing
more than a working part of a mass of revenue generating robots. Once that employee is deemed
no longer needed,they are thrown out the door
with no feelings or remorse,just as you would
put a broken plate in the trash.You are shown the door with only your last check as a reminder
of years and years of faithful,wrenching service
to help this corporation generate billions.
I have experienced it as well as watched it with good friends,people mean absolutely nothing to this cold corporation.It is sad,
I am one who,after 12 years of 12 hours a day,
skipping vacation,never sick days, no personal days,just work,work,work,I thought I would retire as a Gannett,former manager.
Yeah,right.....There's the door,have a good life.
3:31am please tell us what a press operator with 20 years of experience earns per hour. I'd like to know what a 12 percent cut really looks like
ReplyDeleteI hope Ramhoff gets assigned to Cincinnati. He could be publisher AND editor. Right now we have neither. The Enquirer is more like a small-town pennysaver than a smart, discerning big-city paper. Aw, heck, let him bring Rick Green to run his former newsroom. Journalism under Callinan has all but disappeared.
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ReplyDeleteHah, 6:58. I wouldn't hold my breath on Ramhoff's arrival at the Enquirer. He was fired from The Sun in that squaeky-clean corporate way.
ReplyDeleteTwo children in Rye Brook were attacked tonight by a coyote as reported as the lead story on the WCBS-TV 11 o'clock news. Nothing at all on the Journal News' LoHud.com. Sad.
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ReplyDeleteFollowing is an edited version of a comment posted by @2:37 a.m.:
ReplyDeleteRamhoff likely will return to the Midwest, but don't expect him or Green to land in Cincinnati. There will be lots of shuffling in the next month and Ramhoff will get one of those seats, folks in McLean say. And the rumor that is getting louder here in Palm Springs on [XXXXX] is that he's being courted heavily by a newspaper in his native Ohio - either Columbus or Cleveland - and could be gone by month's end. Big loss for us if it's true and not a good situation for a new publisher to inherit. Will be interesting to see how many former Enquirerites he recruited to the West will follow him if he leves GAnnett.