tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post4902602626098959459..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: 10% cut: Pubs, editors told to 'rebook' papersJim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-51778659971452735122008-11-03T19:34:00.000-05:002008-11-03T19:34:00.000-05:00I would think that you would have the option to ta...I would think that you would have the option to take the open position and if you didn't then your severance etc., would still be in effect. But with the way things are going around here, you can't count on anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-88669613353362414492008-11-03T18:56:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:56:00.000-05:00Last time around, they offered some of those laid ...Last time around, they offered some of those laid off the option of an open position. My question is; If they were to offer a lower pay position and I refused it, would that negate my getting severance and unemployment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-31527982510678953312008-11-03T18:36:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:36:00.000-05:00receivedreceivedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-41705468201370306052008-11-03T18:35:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:35:00.000-05:00C'mon, 6:34 p.m.: Which paper?C'mon, 6:34 p.m.: Which paper?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16651269559205765985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-72260079406376413052008-11-03T18:34:00.000-05:002008-11-03T18:34:00.000-05:00Here in the heart of Ohio I reveived information t...Here in the heart of Ohio I reveived information that in light of our downhill industry, our Monday edition will no longer be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-31165518907949254162008-11-03T16:04:00.000-05:002008-11-03T16:04:00.000-05:00What about the TV book? Any locations toying with ...What about the TV book? Any locations toying with the idea of doing away with TV skeds to ease the gutting of other content?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-77991645076835398812008-11-03T14:41:00.000-05:002008-11-03T14:41:00.000-05:005:52 am, I have the answers to why American print ...5:52 am, I have the answers to why American print tanks:<BR/><BR/>1. Companies like Gannett taking them over.<BR/><BR/>2. The dumbing of America.<BR/><BR/>Nuff said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-67393754152333593402008-11-03T05:53:00.000-05:002008-11-03T05:53:00.000-05:00I don't believe all the "do away with this and tha...I don't believe all the "do away with this and that". Shouldn't you be focusing on doing what you do better? Maybe they ought to do away with newspaper school if all it's spewing out is (most of) your attitudes. People still want newspapers, regardless of all of your prevailing thinking. more would still buy more if they got what they wanted/needed in them like they used to. Maybe someone should Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-71230172304091731012008-11-02T22:33:00.000-05:002008-11-02T22:33:00.000-05:00Why not just include the human dimension in all ne...Why not just include the human dimension in all news stories? Junk sections. Readers care more about a good read than how the story is labeled on a page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-36877746186353216912008-11-02T20:03:00.000-05:002008-11-02T20:03:00.000-05:007:02: Love that idea. I work at a small paper, but...7:02: Love that idea. I work at a small paper, but I am passing it up the chain. May get no where - but it is worth a shot. We only have minimal space for nation/world news now because we've been cutting newshole for well over a year now. <BR/><BR/>And, Life has to be the first to go. The really good, meaningful stories can go throughout the paper. You can still have a section a couple days a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5508553214919187492008-11-02T19:02:00.000-05:002008-11-02T19:02:00.000-05:00I am one individual who thinks that having a separ...I am one individual who thinks that having a separate lifestyle section is kind of silly. As advertising has declined, a lot of lifestyle sections have been turned into ghost towns with mostly wire copy. Yeah, they are designed pretty well, but what is that saying about putting lipstick on a pig ...<BR/><BR/>The bottomline is that readers don't really care if we have a special section for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-20748093987974062272008-11-02T15:21:00.000-05:002008-11-02T15:21:00.000-05:00The whole paper needs to be re-engineered. Who's w...The whole paper needs to be re-engineered. Who's working on that new newspaper model? Anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-72307952694256074702008-11-02T15:16:00.000-05:002008-11-02T15:16:00.000-05:00Lifestyles section, important for women readers? ...Lifestyles section, important for women readers? PUleeeessse.. Have you talked to any women lately? You might be surprised what we read.<BR/><BR/> MOst lifestyle pages contain mostly wire reports of hollywood gossip or food recipes. As for local content, for years these sections have been full of reporters who don't do local, but rewrite USAToday copy, or "localize" wire features. <BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-21637060374482121352008-11-02T13:16:00.000-05:002008-11-02T13:16:00.000-05:00IDEA: Trim down on the week end section which quot...IDEA: Trim down on the week end section which quotes all the tv programs and the entertainment ideas. We can seek that out anyway. Do not cut out the Life Style section. When it is combined with another section I feel like something is missing. This is the one element of your paper that you should keep. (See other readers post). This is the "Female" section of the paper as many have stated. If Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-55189544514665487452008-11-02T12:14:00.000-05:002008-11-02T12:14:00.000-05:00A paper with no features section is a paper with n...A paper with no features section is a paper with no soul. Many people buy features because it's the only part of the paper with any creativity. Without features, people will read crime online and cancel their subscriptions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-77273460525714130152008-11-02T10:56:00.000-05:002008-11-02T10:56:00.000-05:00IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN YOUR FEMALE READERS OF YOUR ...IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN YOUR FEMALE READERS OF YOUR PAPER, DO NOT DO AWAY WITH THE LIFE STYLE SECTION!!!!!Remember we are the people who usually look for the adds, compare adds and shop! Life style is our section!!!If you consider who spends the most money, who purchases your paper the most, etc., then you will reconsider doing away with the Life Style section. Maybe ask your reporters for more Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5876582479285175362008-11-02T09:32:00.000-05:002008-11-02T09:32:00.000-05:00Deck chairs againDeck chairs againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-88577405492083116552008-11-02T09:08:00.000-05:002008-11-02T09:08:00.000-05:00Here's something that Gannett might consider "inno...Here's something that Gannett might consider "innovative." It's not, though. It was a simple expectation when I worked years for a different company. <BR/><BR/>You CAN blend snippets of peoples' lives and community color in each and every story---even the crime ones, courts and seemingly ugliest stories. It can be done. Lifestyles can scream out through the entire paper rather than just in a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-15802026103079410662008-11-02T07:51:00.000-05:002008-11-02T07:51:00.000-05:00So let's see. Sell less...make the product smaller...So let's see. Sell less...make the product smaller and with less content...at a higher price...to do what exactly? My Jr. High boy laughed at that one. "If you give people less of a reason to buy the paper, won't you sell less papers" he asks. On top of that I hear some papers are slicing and dicing single copy in an effort to push people to home delivery. All that happens is less sales. Single Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-53133379984229164312008-11-02T00:45:00.000-04:002008-11-02T00:45:00.000-04:00I don't work for a lifestyles section, but I will ...I don't work for a lifestyles section, but I will say that it is very important to our product and would be tragic to the paper as a hole if it disappears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-88114146114391467752008-11-02T00:34:00.000-04:002008-11-02T00:34:00.000-04:00i love how all the lifestyles editors/reporters qu...i love how all the lifestyles editors/reporters queue up to defend their turf. <BR/><BR/>our section has been 90% wire and 10% useless local for the past few years.<BR/><BR/>it'll probably escape cuts only because the paper values women readers more than men. i bet sports pages take the biggest hit here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-12546174468625980032008-11-01T23:35:00.000-04:002008-11-01T23:35:00.000-04:00Insanity. Like the person above said, our communit...Insanity. Like the person above said, our community is already complaining there isn't anything to the paper anymore. A further reduction combined with higher prices. We'll be lucky to survive another year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-26744270658131525252008-11-01T22:57:00.000-04:002008-11-01T22:57:00.000-04:00Our readers are already complaining that there isn...Our readers are already complaining that there isn't anything in the paper to read anymore, so I think cutting the news hole is going to be detrimental. <BR/><BR/>I have thought for a while that there are a lot of things that we should get rid of so that we could focus more on putting original local content in the paper - the national news for instance that everyone reads on the Internet - but Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-24272140267442466012008-11-01T22:38:00.000-04:002008-11-01T22:38:00.000-04:00I don't think it's a matter of killing the section...I don't think it's a matter of killing the section, but to get the reduction in news hole necessary at my paper (we're going to cut up to 30 news pages a week), Features is going to take the brunt of the hit, if only because there are more pages coming out of that department in a normal week. <BR/><BR/>Local is pretty thin, as is the A section, which also includes a couple of Business pages. If Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-5893763358752189712008-11-01T21:55:00.000-04:002008-11-01T21:55:00.000-04:00I agree. The features section at our paper is abou...I agree. The features section at our paper is about the only thing worth reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com