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Sunday, January 29, 2012
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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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Other than Dubow’s departure nothing’s fundamentally changed about Gannett in the past year or so as revenues and employee ranks continue to decline yet the pro-Gannett posts here have notably improved which clearly suggests a concerted effort by some to reshape the discussion here.
ReplyDeleteSo, for those engage in it please share why anyone would want to work for this company.
We don't. It's just a matter of time. It's all within reach and I can hardly wait!
ReplyDelete9:49, to paraphrase a former president "It's the jobs market, dummy." You don't leave the job you have during a time of rampant employment until you have another job in hand. We stay for the pay check until the ship sinks.
ReplyDeleteEasiest way to lose your job at Gannett: lie on expense reports.
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me about the Gannett Blog is the sheer childishness.
ReplyDeleteLots of workplaces go sour, lots of bosses are jerks, lots of people, me included, have lost their jobs over the years.
You just move on. Maybe grumble to friends or whatnot, but to carry on like this, continually lambasting what was, past bosses, those who took over and everything else is really immature.
Everyone knows you don't go into an interview criticizing the place you used to work or your last poss -- that just shows you're going to be a problem. But here, all that bad mojo just spills out continually.
Say it once and move on. But picking at this workplace memory over and over is just plain immature and foolish. Grow up and find something you like.
Arizona Republic runs a fact-check on a statement by local Sheriff Joe Arpaio and rates it "false." Arpaio got his false information from ... The Arizona Republic:
ReplyDeletehttp://on.wsj.com/zcstgv
"How dare you rely on our reporting?"
This is getting national notice. Wall Street Journal and Pajamas Media have picked it up, and I'm sure others have as well.
Embarrassing.
It will be interesting to hear what Gracia spins as her accomplishments during the financials release conference call. I wonder how many times the words successful and transformation will be used.
ReplyDeleteDon't be hard on the folks from corporate. They are being forced to take there direction from a bunch of buzzword spewing MBA's who have never accomplished anything tangible in their careers. But boy they sound impressive doing nothing. Meanwhile the rest of us, who live in the real world and do real work, and know more about the business have to take direction from these smart but incompetent folks. Most folks expect the folks at headquarters to be a bit detached and a bit of a pain but there is such a competence gap between the staff outside of HQ and the folks that make the money and it makes it hard to take anything you hear from HQ seriously.
ReplyDeleteSo you cast stones at corporate yet you, and I mean you the poster, call yourself hardworking yet your revenue numbers are down, down, down. Me thinks you aren't doing a very good job.
DeleteGannett's Clipper Magazine unit lays off 40 of 600 headquarters employees.
ReplyDeleteWait. How could Clipper be employing 40? Could you lay that out Jim? Where did the cuts come from and who's left?
ReplyDeleteiPhone rollout starts at the Arizona Republic next week. The memo went out yesterday.
ReplyDelete2:07 has a point about workplace memories, but "picking at this workplace memory" is not childish at all; it is in fact a very healthy process of, in 2:07's phrase, moving on.
ReplyDeleteTrauma and anger is processed differently by different people at any stage in their life. And in this case, career.
Sure, if one becomes obsessive about anything, there's a self-defeating problem. But to examine something hardly means that one isn't moving on. It means examination. Examination is not childish.
The most striking thing about Jim Hopkins' blog is the fulcrum it manifests: LOTS of people, the former faithful regarding this particular company, compared to others either now employed or once employed elsewhere, are dismayed, chagrined and noting it.
Report: Some Vassar applicants mistakenly told their accepted
ReplyDelete7:48 PM
On Friday, Vassar College mistakenly told early-decision applicants they had been accepted to the to the college, the school told the New York Times.
My god! Have we fallen this far?
6:49 More details about the 40 Clipper layoffs in the article I linked to.
ReplyDelete8:14 Sadly, yes. The Poughkeepsie Journal has fallen that hard. And it can't get up.
ReplyDeleteThat may have happened on a night when there were 2 copy editors to get out all of Poughkeepsie, Westchester and Rockland. Oh, and weeklies, advance copy, all web work, etc., etc., etc.
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ReplyDeleteGCI just plain sucks, used to be the best newspaper company in the world, what happened over 4-5 years
ReplyDeleteThe happy Pressman
There is a weekly,still surviving,
ReplyDeletethat has revenue numbers that are down more than 40% from 2010.
Go figure that one.
10:08, wow, now going all out Biblical on us with a "cast stones" reference at our Great and Mighty and Righteous Leadership Team ... What's next? Plagues of locusts and frogs upon ye who dareth take the name of the Chosen Ones in vain?
ReplyDeleteNew York Magazine says: "The weirdest thing about the rumor that Kim Kardashian gets paid $10,000 for a Twitter endorsement is that it’s true."
ReplyDelete(Hat tip, Romenesko.)
Re: 10:08. It's hard to do a "good job" when you have an inferior product to sell.
ReplyDeleteOn its biggest circulation day, the Cincinnati Enquirer devotes its lone staff-written editorial (which is averaging two or three per week!) to what is essentially a calendar item. The highlights:
ReplyDelete1. The Ohio primary is March 6
2. Ohioans will cast primary votes for a U.S. senator, all U.S. House seats, 16 state senators, 99 state House members and a host of local officials.
3. The Enquirer will be offering "primers" on races in upcoming coverage.
4. You can email our political editor with what you need to know.
5. You can go to the Ohio Secretary of State's website to register by the Feb. 6 primary deadline.
6. Here are some other sites you can see for election information.
7. One paragraph of information for Kentucky voters.
8. This inspirational kicker: "So many races -- but still enough time. The primaries are coming; you'll be prepared."
This is what the Enquirer has come to. Most high school papers and most amateur bloggers do a better job.
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DeleteReading the comments on this blog from newspaper people compared to comments from the new media folks reminds me of the famous line from the James Bond movie, "Goldfinger" with Gannett as Goldfinger and the newspapers as Bond.
ReplyDeleteBond, tied up and subjected to a diabolical torture, asks, "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger answers, "No, I expect you to die, Mr. Bond."
Jim, you seem convinced Gannett will be announcing a new business model this week. Don't think the meeting will be as much about that as it will be a pep rally for the strategic plan. And buyouts announced very soon.
ReplyDeleteSo, what if a site that needs a reduction in force does not have buyout takers? Or enough? Is there a layoff back-up plan that will then go into effect? I believe
ReplyDeletethere will not be enough volunteers,contrary to all here who say they will welcome the chance, to fill the numbers that Gannett needs to reduce.
Let me make a recommendation: If you're over 50, have a decade or two with the company and are offered the chanced for a buyout or early retirement, take it! That package is FAR better than being laid off - take it from someone who knows! Look at the ages of your fellow workers who have been laid off over the past few years.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the exit package advice, Roxanne. Do you get a kickback for everyone who takes the buyout?
ReplyDelete"Do you expect me to talk?"
ReplyDeleteGoldfinger answers, "No, I expect you to die, Mr. Bond."
Just for the record, the correct sequence is....
Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
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