Yesterday, Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the Chicago Tribune was planning on laying off 20 percent of its newsroom staff, citing sources involved in a meeting about the cuts.Today, Editor & Publisher reports that a Chicago Tribune editor is disputing that claim, saying that while jobs will be cut, the 20 percent figure is not [...]
Cynthia Tucker is moving from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s editorial page editor into a new role as a political columnist based in Washington, D.C.Her new assignment brings changes to the editorial department, including moving Andre Jackson, currently the AJC’s senior editor for business, federal and state news, to editorial editor. Before joining the AJC, Jackson served [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher by circulation, will report its earnings on Thursday, kicking off what is expected to be the ugliest quarter in recent memory for the industry.According to the story, analysts and industry executives will be watching for any signs of a recovery in advertising. [...]
Jon Friedman of Marketwatch asks in his recent column, “Do scoops matter in a digital world?”Friedman believes the glory days for scoops may be ending, since society is molding into an Internet-dominated world. He writes, “How long does a scoop last nowadays on the Internet? Ten seconds, maybe? Things have changed.”From the column: For many [...]
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Lisa Gibbs is leaving her post as the editor of The Miami Herald’s business sections for a job at Money magazine, where she worked before joining the paper in 2004.In today’s paper she wrote a goodbye letter to her readers: “I feel like most of my time here has been spent on two H-words: hurricanes [...]
Conventional wisdom can be the bane of business reporting just as much as in political reporting. But good reporters challenge the accepted wisdom. Here are three examples of deeper reporting from the MinnPost, the Voice of San Diego and the Arizona Daily Star. Many who lose a job decline costly health insurance; will new subsidy [...]
The Times-Union of New York has canceled the collective bargaining agreement with a union which represents over half of its 450 employees, according to an article on the paper’s website. The move, announced late in the afternoon, came after nine months of negotiation with The Albany Newspaper Guild, part of the Communications Workers of America, [...]
