tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post4159589323864709004..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: Hubs | Here are launch dates for Design StudiosJim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-3063679801244035292011-01-20T21:28:40.007-05:002011-01-20T21:28:40.007-05:007:57 knows more about anii than genii.7:57 knows more about anii than genii.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-22924959408678876582011-01-20T19:57:08.606-05:002011-01-20T19:57:08.606-05:00The amusing thing? In my travels about my city, wh...The amusing thing? In my travels about my city, whenever I overhear someone discussing our only paper (including some former advertising clients), it's uniformly negative. The difference is that the public opinion I've been exposed to was once a reasonable mixture of positive and negative, both, before Gannett began making the "local" paper into this understaffed, impersonal, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4254158731942946192011-01-20T14:18:26.392-05:002011-01-20T14:18:26.392-05:007:26 p.m. A number of offices in our area do indee...7:26 p.m. A number of offices in our area do indeed use the auto attendant often to answer the phones when the lone editorial assistant isn't there or at lunch, etc. What you called what "will be 'local' in a few years" is exactly what our site will be once the pagination moves to the design hub.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-62702232643221571362011-01-19T00:00:43.607-05:002011-01-19T00:00:43.607-05:00Does anyone have a guess as to how many copy editi...Does anyone have a guess as to how many copy editing and pagination jobs will be cut at Gannett papers once the hubs are up and running? 50 percent? 75 percent? ALL of them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-64714228710221323712011-01-18T20:33:12.735-05:002011-01-18T20:33:12.735-05:00Where does the money go? "I just want to know...Where does the money go? "I just want to know where ALL of the money Gannett is saving by doing stuff like this is going!?!?!?! We know it's not going to investors."<br /><br />Isn't interest on company debt in the hundreds of millions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-9411586522221911712011-01-18T19:50:58.545-05:002011-01-18T19:50:58.545-05:00The savings from creating theses hubs and then rou...The savings from creating theses hubs and then routing all of their work offshore appears tremendous. SO, where will all of that initial money that is being saved go?<br /><br />I'm surprised that they haven't attempted to offshore all of that typing that editorial assistants do. All they'd have to do is fax the local logs or letters to a center in China and the savings would be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-69742507480724363202011-01-18T19:26:08.669-05:002011-01-18T19:26:08.669-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-62345996096242637222011-01-18T11:44:33.057-05:002011-01-18T11:44:33.057-05:00Just wait til you only are allowed to sell quarter...Just wait til you only are allowed to sell quarter half and full page ads, or stupid L shaped stuff like our USAT page has open now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-63926406473244367192011-01-18T11:33:30.507-05:002011-01-18T11:33:30.507-05:00It's going to decrease the number of paginator...It's going to decrease the number of paginators and copy editors.<br /><br />For example, and this isn't fact, just an idea: The Design Center chief could decide that the same wire stories are going to run in 20 papers. That eliminates the need for multiple copy editors at multiple sites to scroll the wire in search of stories and then to read them.<br /><br />A couple of copy editors at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-43608781207471252672011-01-18T00:37:36.208-05:002011-01-18T00:37:36.208-05:00The way they will save money is by outsourcing mos...The way they will save money is by outsourcing most of the work these design centers are supposed to do. Initially, we will all think that the work is being done by people in this country, but eventually most of the work will likely be done by folks in India, China and the Philippines. <br /><br />I just want to know where ALL of the money Gannett is saving by doing stuff like this is going!?!?!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-73266483273166969622011-01-18T00:00:04.124-05:002011-01-18T00:00:04.124-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-8457105647179045902011-01-17T23:54:14.931-05:002011-01-17T23:54:14.931-05:00When will the other shoe drop? They can't poss...When will the other shoe drop? They can't possibly achieve any significant efficiencies by taking production work now done at many sites and centralizing it at their so called Design Studios. Has anybody heard a good argument about how this is going to save money?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-31120467020013934302011-01-17T23:13:10.336-05:002011-01-17T23:13:10.336-05:008:21; Read it again, buddy. Phase 2 starts in Jan....8:21; Read it again, buddy. Phase 2 starts in Jan. 2012, with the newspapers listed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-39486873476244047692011-01-17T22:10:06.454-05:002011-01-17T22:10:06.454-05:003 years ago we had about 90 employee currently hav...3 years ago we had about 90 employee currently have less than 35. At this rate Gannett will get us down to about 12. A couple of reporters who would add a couple of local stories, one sports reporters who would handle the high school beat, the rest would be standard copy and format from Gannett. Will only need 4 sales people or so since ad sales tanked when circulation dropped(like a rock)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-38895975349890307342011-01-17T20:53:31.379-05:002011-01-17T20:53:31.379-05:008:21, If you'll notice there are many. many pa...8:21, If you'll notice there are many. many papers missing from the list. Only phase 1 newspapers are listed - none of the phase 2 newspapers are individually listed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-52598037950461813342011-01-17T20:21:52.609-05:002011-01-17T20:21:52.609-05:00So why isn't Wilmington listed in connection w...So why isn't Wilmington listed in connection with the Asbury Park hub?<br />This would seem to lend credence to the Wilmington-Camden-Philadelphia Inquirer rumors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-50059486457879101602011-01-17T17:46:47.167-05:002011-01-17T17:46:47.167-05:00You mean "an" idiot? ;-)You mean "an" idiot? ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-55136163542776784862011-01-17T16:35:55.030-05:002011-01-17T16:35:55.030-05:003:24 pm - Anyone at a paper who did not think they...3:24 pm - Anyone at a paper who did not think they would be charged for this "service" is a idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-14600087557195500342011-01-17T15:24:49.964-05:002011-01-17T15:24:49.964-05:00The papers themselves didn't know they would b...The papers themselves didn't know they would be paying a big chunk of the hubs' bill until a few weeks ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-36715458994417040872011-01-17T11:22:14.946-05:002011-01-17T11:22:14.946-05:00Check your email, Jim. It has the breakdown of the...Check your email, Jim. It has the breakdown of the individual papersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com