Florida Today is reducing its newsroom employment more than 25% -- to 57 positions -- by Thursday. The Brevard paper has been buffeted by the real estate bust, which hit Florida especially hard, and NASA's downsizing along the Atlantic's Space Coast.
Today's front page leads with an analysis of expensive public employee stipends -- payments that cities can ill-afford amid declining revenues. This is the kind of labor-intensive government watchdog reporting threatened by Gannett's newsroom cutbacks.
Florida Today's circulation: weekdays, 67,970; Sundays, 94,660. (ABC's circulation lookup database.)
Earlier: Editors meeting Aug. 16-18 to map newsrooms' future after layoffs. Plus: Nashville's Tennessean says cutting 20 news jobs will help "deepen the paper's legacy of public service journalism."
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Today's front page leads with an analysis of expensive public employee stipends -- payments that cities can ill-afford amid declining revenues. This is the kind of labor-intensive government watchdog reporting threatened by Gannett's newsroom cutbacks.
Earlier: Editors meeting Aug. 16-18 to map newsrooms' future after layoffs. Plus: Nashville's Tennessean says cutting 20 news jobs will help "deepen the paper's legacy of public service journalism."
Got a Gannett front page to recommend? Find it in the Newseum's page one database, then post a link in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write jimhopkins[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the rail, upper right.
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I love the look of that cover. I wish more of our newspapers led with a really strong VISUAL.
ReplyDeleteIt's also a great way of increasing resentment and turning workers against one another; in other words, class warfare. That's investigative reporting a publisher can get behind.
ReplyDeleteSome places are doing a lot of watchdog reporting with less staff, but they are burning out rapidly. and a lot of the day-to-day reporting is going by the boards.
ReplyDeletewe've been getting more visual for 20 years. How has that worked out building circualtion?
ReplyDeletesorry, circulation
ReplyDeleteThat's a great layout, but that's a lot of space translating into less story.
ReplyDeleteI would like Florida Today to list the salaries and perks their employees get. The database, although public information, is an invasion of privacy.
ReplyDeleteIf these G A N N E T T big wigs think they can do better with less, they should dump most of the new VPs at USA Today, and trim the coporate suite.
ReplyDeleteWould G A N N E T T really be worse off without Dubow or Matore? We need to keep one of them, I guess....
Circulation figures are...Well let's say about twenty thousand lower than posted, weekday as well as Sunday and still declining.
ReplyDelete8/7 12:03...That front page is not usual. Very rarely does the Sunday front page command a second look much less a first.
ReplyDelete8/8 5:17...It's just part of the creative accounting that has been in place since the last CD arrived too many years ago.
Oh bother, T - 24 hours and counting until joining the unemployment line. Happy and sad that the same time.
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