tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post7263899008620599466..comments2023-11-05T06:26:51.316-05:00Comments on Gannett Blog: Day 3: Job losses near 1,800; Salinas whacks 31%Jim Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712746705871119746noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-81366235970852819022009-07-02T09:51:29.568-04:002009-07-02T09:51:29.568-04:00I know that in light of what's happening acros...I know that in light of what's happening across the Journalism world and media in general, it seems job POSTINGS are a rarity, but check out this pretty neat position, especially for a Mizzou alum:<br />http://blog.newsy.com/?p=231Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-45720664195366508062008-12-04T22:11:00.000-05:002008-12-04T22:11:00.000-05:00Poughkeepsie lost 14 of 200 employees on Black Wed...Poughkeepsie lost 14 of 200 employees on Black Wednesday. If you combine that with the 45 jobs lost in the upcoming move of all printing and distribution to Westchester after the first of the year, we will have lost 29.5 percent of our workforce in a month.<BR/><BR/>What happens after the next quarterly report?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-82948854988270589872008-12-04T16:06:00.000-05:002008-12-04T16:06:00.000-05:00Cincinnati news layoffs total 15, including commun...Cincinnati news layoffs total 15, including community weeklies and local-local insert. Range of ages, lots of middle management, some page designers and copy editors. No reporters or photographers.<BR/><BR/>No word on total from other departments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-37900180409743081312008-12-04T15:47:00.000-05:002008-12-04T15:47:00.000-05:00As of Jan. 30 The Salinas Californian will not lo...As of Jan. 30 The Salinas Californian will not longer have a copy desk. Every single copy editor lost his/her job and over the next six weeks they will be coming up with a way for Visalia's copy desk lay out The Californian and every other non-daily publication the company publishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-63286631090860805052008-12-04T14:19:00.000-05:002008-12-04T14:19:00.000-05:00Part of the problem for Salinas was that GCI sees ...Part of the problem for Salinas was that GCI sees them and Visalia/Tulare as one site, despite being 200 miles apart, because they share the same publisher. I think the publisher in Visalia always makes cuts in Salinas first to protect her own site, consolidating positions to Visalia whenever possible. Looking at the only 8 jobs lost in Visalia, it looks like my suspicions are correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-43194581281700891942008-12-04T12:54:00.000-05:002008-12-04T12:54:00.000-05:00To Ron:Yes, there is life after newspapers, but I ...To Ron:<BR/>Yes, there is life after newspapers, but I see no blessing in the way the profession has been decimated. Newsrooms can be negative, dispiriting, and ultimately disillusioning places to work, but most of us got into the "business" because we believed in the importance of the fourth estate. I worked in Salinas in the 1980s and mourn for my friends still there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-24836323872900537312008-12-04T12:26:00.000-05:002008-12-04T12:26:00.000-05:0011:20 AMAmen. I am young reporter who is watching ...11:20 AM<BR/><BR/>Amen. I am young reporter who is watching this all go down. Now I can change my career paths before I have a family, mortgage and such. At least I got to work in the field, so I can die fulfilled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-70286935710826391042008-12-04T12:22:00.000-05:002008-12-04T12:22:00.000-05:00So, what did happen at Dickeys meeting on wednesda...So, what did happen at Dickeys meeting on wednesday. Enquiring minds want to know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-987322977538228512008-12-04T11:20:00.000-05:002008-12-04T11:20:00.000-05:00A few words of encouragement to those let go: It's...A few words of encouragement to those let go: It's been a year and a half since I was dismissed from the paper where I had spent 15 years. At first I felt lost and betrayed, but as things turned around I discovered it was the best thing to happen to me and my family. I'm out of the newspaper business, but still working to educate and inform. I can now spend evenings, weekends and holidays with myRonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15555106338473287172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4979727977619976062008-12-04T10:02:00.000-05:002008-12-04T10:02:00.000-05:00Umm, you're tired, Jim. Salinas cutting 31 out of ...Umm, you're tired, Jim. Salinas cutting 31 out of 130 jobs is not the biggest percentage in this round. The 50 jobs of 105 in Battle Creek is the biggest I've seen, at 47.6 percent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-27186704779510857882008-12-04T09:17:00.000-05:002008-12-04T09:17:00.000-05:00Remember those who were lost. Even if you didn't k...Remember those who were lost. Even if you didn't know them well or weren't directly affected, never forget this week. Keep the names alive. Some good workers and fantastic people were lost. Some very bad judgments were made by some very bad and small-minded people. It appears many of the cuts make absolutely no sense to me or others who have survived, so I can imagine the people who were let go Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-4737989541772890902008-12-04T08:01:00.000-05:002008-12-04T08:01:00.000-05:00I wonder, no slight to Gannett blog, if the lack o...I wonder, no slight to Gannett blog, if the lack of reporting from smaller papers is because few people from those markets are aware of this support system?<BR/>I know I've run across quite a few Gannett employees who never heard of it and were amazed (it is amazing, isn't it).<BR/>To find out those numbers, perhaps we should e-mail people we know at the "missing" papers and ask them to report (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8099437767970534324.post-88419662228262044992008-12-04T01:28:00.000-05:002008-12-04T01:28:00.000-05:00"And to change none of it."You nailed it right the..."And to change none of it."<BR/><BR/>You nailed it right there.<BR/><BR/>Classic Gannett. I'm skeptical anything will be adjusted at my site to fit the new "reality." Despite promises that it will. Oh well. We'll trudge on until the next round.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com