16 ways to consolidate Gannett into oblivion

In an e-mail, a reader writes the following:

The future job losses are easy to predict across Gannett. Connect all of the following and you can see what your continued employment prospects might be.

1. Classified employees will be laid off and class call centers will be created at one or two central sites.
2. All delivery functions will be outsourced to rack companies and contractors. Gannett Publishing Services will be able to cut employees and the associated costs and pass them to vendors.
3. Digital functions will be performed at central studios, just like the Design Centers. The company has learned that it can't build digital teams at each site and is finally realizing there is no one to create content when four-people-per-site are devoted to pure web functions. Folks who have made the successful jump to digital will find themselves either moving to hubs (like copy editors two years ago) or leaving employment.
4. With a modem, finance/accounting can be done from anywhere. Racks are gradually being removed and one person can now count all of the quarters in one morning (this will go to contractors anyway). Accounting and human resources are already heavily consolidated; they will be consolidated more. Sarbanes-Oxley be damned: There will be no accounting needs at sites. Also, numbers calculated at hubs can't be washed courtesy of the local publisher and controller.
5. Offices are largely unnecessary. Salespeople can do everything remotely -- reporters too. There is no longer walk-in traffic at the offices; the people who used to "drop off" things at a newspaper don't exist. Obits are done by the funeral homes, weddings have gone to social media, celebrations are now paid content (no one is paying), yard sales go to shoppers or CraigsList. Once classified leaves the building, you won't need a building.
6. No building means no local IT. Vendors can be contracted to trouble-shoot all equipment, because it will be all-mobile hardware -- easier to replace than fix.
7. With no circulation, production, accounting, classified, building/grounds and IT oversight required, publishers won't be needed. We see the trend of the general manager-ad director and GM-editor. That will become the norm.
8. When the publisher becomes the ad director, the ad director is done. When the publisher is the editor, the editor is done. With everything viewable on SalesForce.com, ad managers at hubs can monitor all performance. There won't be a need for on-site ad management.
9. Local governments have had it with the legals publishing rates. This content-advertising is headed to government websites. The local laws are going to change. Legals are the only remaining monopoly-like revenue source for local sites. Loss of this revenue stream will be disastrous (yet, I'm not aware that the company even has this on their threat list).
10. Deal Chicken is essentially dead. Gannett Client Solutions barely works. Is anyone still selling Yahoo? Do any of your advertising clients really understand digital marketing solutions and reputation protection? Enough to hand you a check for the service? There are no new or unique digital initiatives with any promise of producing dollars.
11. Photographers are no longer necessary. Stringers can do it all. All you need is a photo editor to assign them and a clerk to shepherd their photos. Reporters can take all of the needed photos and the Design Centers can jazz them up via presentation. There is no need for photography that has an artistic quality, mostly because the readers don't appreciate it in print and it ends up being poorly displayed on the website. Mugshots will rule.
12. Videos either need to get a lot better fast or be scaled back. Someone will figure out that the public has no patience to watch a video made by a reporter with a Sprint iPhone 4, but it's not worth spending the time and cash to make better videos. Some of these embarrassing efforts will occasionally go viral and drive some web attention, which will be mistaken as success.
13. Any press that can be closed, will be closed. If there's a printer within 100 miles that can print your newspaper, they'll be paid to do it, then haul it to the contractor-distributor.
14. Marketing? There is no more local site marketing. At sites where it does exist, it, too, can be outsourced and corporate managed.
15. Weeklies are little more than glorified TMCs. Their production effort is seldom worth the revenue. Advertisers only spend with them because the core product costs too much. Their expenses are hidden in the core product. If and when they have to stand on their own, their profit margins will collapse. About TMCs: Everyone hates them -- they are little more than First Amendment-protected litter bundles. Insert customers are gradually realizing this.
16. Calendar listings will be outsourced, as will court listings, real estate transactions and local business briefs (the Rotary and chamber can write them).

Okay, I've depressed myself into a coma in writing this down.

My hope is that everyone else out here in Gannett Land already knows all of this and is making decisions about their future career options accordingly.