Tag Archives: job cuts
Martin Bell on TV news anchors
Enjoyed this post from Martin Bell about the history of TV anchors at the BBC. In due course TV journalism became a performing art. The BBC’s Vin Ray, an experienced hand who secretly admired the old ways while defending the new, described it as “being in the moment”. There was actually a style coach. Reporters [...]
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Gannett tells staff to take unpaid leave
Crikey. The Gannett Company, which has daily papers in the UK and publishes USA Today, The Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic and dozens of smaller papers in the US, has told staff they must take a week off without pay as part of efforts to avoid layoffs.
The future’s bright. It’s just the medium term that looks a little ropey
I remain relentlessly optimistic about the future of journalism, believing that it will outlive its current institutions and models - and I'm not alone in this judging by a few conversations I've stumbled across online recently (on Twitter and blog comments - too hard to link to just now). For a start, I still read a lot of quality journalism. It's just that much of it is in non-fiction paperbacks, specialist magazines and blogs. Nothing wrong with that.
Newspaper closures are inevitable, says US media analyst
From a Washington Post media piece about still-declining ad revenue and "hiring freezes turned to buyouts and then to layoffs" come these two rather grim quotes.
Posted in Business Models, Newspapers Also tagged Newspapers, revenue, washington post Leave a comment
More job cuts, a reprieve and an expansion