The Baltimore Sun layoffs include Bernie Kohn, investigations editor and former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.Kohn was previously the assistant managing editor for business before The Sun shuttered its business section last year.The cuts equal about a quarter of the paper’s editorial staff.To learn more about who is gone from [...]
The Baltimore Sun this week laid off 61 newsroom employees, or nearly a third of the total newsroom, according to an article on the paper’s website. The reductions hit nearly every type of job in the 205-person newsroom, including top editors, news photographers, critics, columnists, sports reporters, copy editors, page designers and graphic artists, according [...]
Reuters reports that Mary Schapiro, the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said she is concerned that job cuts in newsrooms may hinder the SEC’s ability to crack down on illegal behavior. “It’s an absolute worry for me because I think financial journalists have in many cases been the sources of some really [...]
In a TribLIVE interview, FOX Business Network host Eric Bolling discusses his life before joining FBN. It turns out business news was not Bolling’s first career choice. Before becoming the host of FBN’s “Happy Hour,” Bolling was on track to become a professional baseball player. But an early-career injury ended his baseball dreams. From there, [...]
The Newspaper Guild, which represents newsroom employees at The New York Times, has agreed in principle to a five percent pay cut on union employees, according to an article on the Times‘ website. The company has said that the pay reduction would save $4.5 million and avert the elimination of about 80 jobs, mostly in [...]
Figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show that newspaper circulation for the six months ending March 31 fell 7.1 percent, according to The New York Times.That’s an increase from the 4.3 percent and 3.6 percent drops over the previous two six-month periods. Of the top 25 newspapers in the United States, all posted [...]
Gannett on Tuesday announced that it was appointing David Hunke as the new publisher for USA Today, a position filled by Craig Moon until April 17, according to Editor & Publisher. Craig Dubow, Gannett chairman, president and chief executive officer, made the announcements at the company’s annual shareholders meeting.“Dave is a highly talented, multi-faceted leader, [...]
By Jeff Bailey Most of us aren’t in a position to actually tout stocks or cheer on the market, so we don’t have to worry about being pilloried by John Stewart on The Daily Show, like Jim Kramer was. Yet still, aren’t business journalists as a whole partly to blame for the financial meltdown? And, [...]
Last year, New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger bought out nearly half of its 330 newsroom employees in an effort to avoid shutting down or exploring a sale if costs could not be cut.According to Editor & Publisher, 40 of those former employees have now started up their own news site, NewJerseyNewsroom.com. The site, which so far [...]
