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Friday, April 3, 2009
Friday, April 3 - Got news or a question?
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Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminates 31 open positions and lays off 59 employees
Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:43:22
The Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminated 31 open positions and laid off 59 employees today. Affected departments include Production, Circulation, Marketing, Business, Advertising, Editorial, News, Operations, Facilities, Prepress Design Services and Targeted Solutions, a new product development group.
Pensacola says 84 layoffs in print switch; Toll of new Gannett job cuts soars to nearly 200
The Florida newspaper becomes the ninth Gannett daily to outsource printing, as it confirms plans to move production by early June to a Newhouse-owned paper 56 miles away in Mobile, Ala. "The News Journal does not want to be in the manufacturing and transportation business,'' Publisher Kevin Doyle told his paper for a story today.
The 84 jobs eliminated bring to at least 194 the number of Gannett workers laid off since Monday, when GCI launched an unannounced round of payroll cuts, according to Gannett Blog readers and published accounts.
“NYT now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause." Just reporting the news like it should be, without the bias and lies, might work too, nah, too late! Only a mindless elitist would rank saving a skanky rag with saving human life. ---------------------- Keller: Times will be 'left standing after the deluge' POLITICO'S Tim Grieve reports:
“Commenting on the keep-the-Times alive movement, Keller said: "Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause."
About Obama’s deep bow to the Saudi king, at first the fraud media wanted to report that is was nothing but a head dip, but those pesky, pesky, damn videos. ------ We have a book of Bamisms growing by the day, eh TOTUS?
Really, your animadversion to the president has become so intricate and baroque that no one has any idea what you're talking about.
On another topic: Congratulations to Iowa. With the legalization of gay marriage, they have made a great advance for human rights and life-long love. Very civilized.
My ‘animadversion’ to the media selected president is my right. I watched the unhinged liberals for eight years of nit-picking President Bush, making mountains out of mole hills. Now, they are blind to REALLY stupid mistakes. The bloggers will record these butthead mistakes honestly, as the in-the-tank old media never would. I am just waiting for the liberals to tell us to show respect for the office. What hypocrites! You will get your eight years of hateful journalism back in four. The 2008 election was stolen! Pass it around.
J-schools are still churning out journalists for no jobs, or to take the jobs from higher paid journalists.
[asking universities to foot the bill in exchange for reserved slots for their students.] --------- -Fewer newspapers are offering paid internships to journalism students.- Many news organizations have eliminated paid internships to save money. Others are depending on interns like never before, giving them assignments that once would have gone to more experienced staff reporters. Others, notably the Philadelphia Inquirer, are [asking universities to foot the bill in exchange for reserved slots for their students.] http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4740
Here's a link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1469531.html
But wait, it gets worse. And I quote from the story, I kid you not, I could not make this up: "The National Enquirer reported on its Web site that a federal grand jury in Raleigh is investigating whether former Sen. John Edwards violated campaign-finance laws in his bid for president in 2008 by making payments to Rielle Hunter, his admitted mistress." Not only did the mighty N&O get scooped, but they admit it and report the scoop. What happened to all those reporters on the ground? Oh yeah, they laid them off. So the N&O is stuck reporting that it got scooped.
Alaska must hold a special election to choose their senator, [egregious misconduct] must not elect anyone to office, nothing less will right this wrong. ****** Prosecutors Gone Wild By JOHN FARMER Published: April 2, 2009
“The good news is that Attorney General Eric Holder has done the right thing, acknowledging that his department’s Public Integrity Section, which handles corruption cases, [committed egregious misconduct.”]
-What magazine journalism programs don't tell students- Columbia Journalism Review
A few things on BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen Adler's list: * Your career will probably depend on luck. * Despite the current hard times, students have an advantage over professionals because they have tech skills, and aren’t entrenched in the hierarchy. * An editor-in-chief spends less than half his time doing anything even remotely journalistic.
Abandon ship, matey! Orlando Sentinel sports editor moves to ESPN.com
Hoppes writes: "Someone on a website already has ripped me by saying [I'm abandoning newspapers.] What people fail to understand is that [I got into this business because of journalism, not because of newspapers."] .
Hysterical: Journos given wrong call-in number for Hillary Clinton presser today--got sex line. Try it and see. http://tinyurl.com/cn2xl7 =========== from: http://twitter.com/GregMitch
10:27 My ‘animadversion’ to the media selected president is my right. I watched the unhinged liberals for eight years of nit-picking President Bush, making mountains out of mole hills. Now, they are blind to REALLY stupid mistakes. The bloggers will record these butthead mistakes honestly, as the in-the-tank old media never would. I am just waiting for the liberals to tell us to show respect for the office. What hypocrites! You will get your eight years of hateful journalism back in four. The 2008 election was stolen! Pass it around.
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10:27, you are kidding, right? I am rendered speechless. One of those times when OMFG is the only response. There are not characters enough in the alphabet or a bandwidth wide enough to contain my hatred of GWBush and what he's done to this country and to the world. Normally the rants here are somewhat amusing, but .... this was meant in jest, right?
J-school grads have a better chance because they: “aren’t entrenched in the hierarchy.” ------- I am not sure what that advantage is, anyone agree with that statement?
Sadly, no. This same person will tell you that Obama has now committed more gaffes than Bush ever did, btw. That Bush causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands is not as bad as Obama's "special Olympics" remark. Hold on, it's bumpy ride.
In The (FRESNO) Bee today and Monday, we complete the changes announced two weeks ago:
* Two pages of Opinion will replace the Sunday Vision section. Sunday Opinion can be found in the Local & State section.
* The Sunday Business section has merged into the Local & State section. The Boardroom feature will move from Sunday to the Monday Business pages.
* We've redesigned the Sunday Spotlight section and combined it with our TV and Cable Guide in one tabloid-shaped section. Here you will find all Sunday arts, entertainment, books and travel coverage, plus columns and puzzles. We've discontinued the Backtalk page, and we've made some format changes to the TV grids and TV highlights. As a bonus, we've increased the type size in the TV grids.
* Sports readers will notice some minor changes in the design of certain pages but will continue to see all of each day's news.
We appreciate your understanding of the changes we've made to weather a recession-driven downturn in advertising revenues.
Please contact Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye with questions or comments at blumbye@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6207.
22 comments:
Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminates 31 open positions and lays off 59 employees
Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:43:22
The Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminated 31 open positions and laid off 59 employees today. Affected departments include Production, Circulation, Marketing, Business, Advertising, Editorial, News, Operations, Facilities, Prepress Design Services and Targeted Solutions, a new product development group.
Pensacola says 84 layoffs in print switch; Toll of new Gannett job cuts soars to nearly 200
The Florida newspaper becomes the ninth Gannett daily to outsource printing, as it confirms plans to move production by early June to a Newhouse-owned paper 56 miles away in Mobile, Ala. "The News Journal does not want to be in the manufacturing and transportation business,'' Publisher Kevin Doyle told his paper for a story today.
The 84 jobs eliminated bring to at least 194 the number of Gannett workers laid off since Monday, when GCI launched an unannounced round of payroll cuts, according to Gannett Blog readers and published accounts.
“NYT now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause."
Just reporting the news like it should be, without the bias and lies, might work too, nah, too late! Only a mindless elitist would rank saving a skanky rag with saving human life.
----------------------
Keller: Times will be 'left standing after the deluge'
POLITICO'S Tim Grieve reports:
“Commenting on the keep-the-Times alive movement, Keller said: "Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause."
About Obama’s deep bow to the Saudi king, at first the fraud media wanted to report that is was nothing but a head dip, but those pesky, pesky, damn videos.
------
We have a book of Bamisms growing by the day, eh TOTUS?
Really, your animadversion to the president has become so intricate and baroque that no one has any idea what you're talking about.
On another topic: Congratulations to Iowa. With the legalization of gay marriage, they have made a great advance for human rights and life-long love. Very civilized.
My ‘animadversion’ to the media selected president is my right. I watched the unhinged liberals for eight years of nit-picking President Bush, making mountains out of mole hills. Now, they are blind to REALLY stupid mistakes. The bloggers will record these butthead mistakes honestly, as the in-the-tank old media never would. I am just waiting for the liberals to tell us to show respect for the office. What hypocrites! You will get your eight years of hateful journalism back in four. The 2008 election was stolen! Pass it around.
With the legalization of gay marriage, they have made a great advance for human rights and life-long love. Very civilized.
There is just one problem. They didn't legalize it. You must work for the KC Star and not have a clue about honesty.
J-schools are still churning out journalists for no jobs, or to take the jobs from higher paid journalists.
[asking universities to foot the bill in exchange for reserved slots for their students.]
---------
-Fewer newspapers are offering paid internships to journalism students.-
Many news organizations have eliminated paid internships to save money. Others are depending on interns like never before, giving them assignments that once would have gone to more experienced staff reporters. Others, notably the Philadelphia Inquirer, are [asking universities to foot the bill in exchange for reserved slots for their students.]
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4740
News & Observer scooped by the National Enquirer!
Here's a link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1469531.html
But wait, it gets worse. And I quote from the story, I kid you not, I could not make this up: "The National Enquirer reported on its Web site that a federal grand jury in Raleigh is investigating whether former Sen. John Edwards violated campaign-finance laws in his bid for president in 2008 by making payments to Rielle Hunter, his admitted mistress." Not only did the mighty N&O get scooped, but they admit it and report the scoop. What happened to all those reporters on the ground? Oh yeah, they laid them off. So the N&O is stuck reporting that it got scooped.
Walt-in-Durham
Alaska must hold a special election to choose their senator, [egregious misconduct] must not elect anyone to office, nothing less will right this wrong.
******
Prosecutors Gone Wild
By JOHN FARMER
Published: April 2, 2009
“The good news is that Attorney General Eric Holder has done the right thing, acknowledging that his department’s Public Integrity Section, which handles corruption cases, [committed egregious misconduct.”]
“[intricate and baroque] that no one has any idea what you're talking about.”
I heard that people that says things like that are light on their feet.
You mean he's a Friken POOF
-What magazine journalism programs don't tell students-
Columbia Journalism Review
A few things on BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen Adler's list:
* Your career will probably depend on luck.
* Despite the current hard times, students have an advantage over professionals because they have tech skills, and aren’t entrenched in the hierarchy.
* An editor-in-chief spends less than half his time doing anything even remotely journalistic.
Abandon ship, matey!
Orlando Sentinel sports editor moves to ESPN.com
Hoppes writes: "Someone on a website already has ripped me by saying [I'm abandoning newspapers.] What people fail to understand is that [I got into this business because of journalism, not because of newspapers."]
.
Hysterical: Journos given wrong call-in number for Hillary Clinton presser today--got sex line. Try it and see.
http://tinyurl.com/cn2xl7
===========
from: http://twitter.com/GregMitch
10:27
My ‘animadversion’ to the media selected president is my right. I watched the unhinged liberals for eight years of nit-picking President Bush, making mountains out of mole hills. Now, they are blind to REALLY stupid mistakes. The bloggers will record these butthead mistakes honestly, as the in-the-tank old media never would. I am just waiting for the liberals to tell us to show respect for the office. What hypocrites! You will get your eight years of hateful journalism back in four. The 2008 election was stolen! Pass it around.
------------
10:27, you are kidding, right? I am rendered speechless. One of those times when OMFG is the only response. There are not characters enough in the alphabet or a bandwidth wide enough to contain my hatred of GWBush and what he's done to this country and to the world. Normally the rants here are somewhat amusing, but .... this was meant in jest, right?
I think AJ Holder not paying his taxes was egregious misconduct! Of course, that makes him infinitely suited for the Obama cabinet.
J-school grads have a better chance because they: “aren’t entrenched in the hierarchy.”
-------
I am not sure what that advantage is, anyone agree with that statement?
"this was meant in jest, right?"
Sadly, no. This same person will tell you that Obama has now committed more gaffes than Bush ever did, btw. That Bush causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands is not as bad as Obama's "special Olympics" remark. Hold on, it's bumpy ride.
News & Observer scooped by the National Enquirer!
--------
AGAIN That is! Little John need to
♫ Shuffle Off To Buffalo ♫
“Someday, the stork may pay a visit
And leave a little souvenir.
Just a little cute "what is it,"
But we'll discuss that later, dear.”
Throw him out Liz, throw him OUT!
That Bush causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands is not as bad as Obama's "special Olympics" remark. Hold on, it's bumpy ride.
What a pity he missed you.
In The (FRESNO) Bee today and Monday, we complete the changes announced two weeks ago:
* Two pages of Opinion will replace the Sunday Vision section. Sunday Opinion can be found in the Local & State section.
* The Sunday Business section has merged into the Local & State section. The Boardroom feature will move from Sunday to the Monday Business pages.
* We've redesigned the Sunday Spotlight section and combined it with our TV and Cable Guide in one tabloid-shaped section. Here you will find all Sunday arts, entertainment, books and travel coverage, plus columns and puzzles. We've discontinued the Backtalk page, and we've made some format changes to the TV grids and TV highlights. As a bonus, we've increased the type size in the TV grids.
* Sports readers will notice some minor changes in the design of certain pages but will continue to see all of each day's news.
We appreciate your understanding of the changes we've made to weather a recession-driven downturn in advertising revenues.
Please contact Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye with questions or comments at blumbye@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6207.
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