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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Gannett Co., the largest owner of newspapers in the country, has begun laying off more than 1,500 employees around the country this week. Some of those employees are business reporters and business editors. For example, Cincinnati Enquirer business editor Carolyn Pione is now gone from the paper. I’ve also had unconfirmed rumors of a business [...]
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gannett Blog That's according to a Gannett Blog reader tally. The Salinas Californian eliminated 31% of its 130 jobs -- the biggest percentage loss in latest round of cuts. || Job loss stories from Gannett papers: Louisville Courier-Journal , Indianapolis Star , Arizona Republic , Honolulu Advertiser and Appleton, Wis. Post-Crescent .
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Dullard Mush (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad day at the Reno Gazette-Journal and Gannett nationwide. The RGJ announced it was letting 61 people go and ceasing publication of weeklies Douglas Times and Fallon Star Press. Its commercial press in Carson City is also being closed. As of 4:42 p.m PST the independent Gannett Blog was reporting 1,400 layoffs nationwide, with more papers yet to report. Posted anonymously in the Gannett Blog comments...
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The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gannettblog's count of Gannett Layoffs pegs the count at the combined Elmira/Binghamton operation at 40. Also, WXXI says that the D&C's cut of 59 positions hit 12 in the newsroom (via Rochesterturning ). Yesterday, one of the sports reporters laid off at Gannett's Courier-Post property, which covers South Jersey, revealed in his last blog post that the newsroom there had shrunk to 107 70 people. That...
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Schreiner's Media Landscape (Free subscription) | yesterday
I worked for Gannett-owned TV stations for nearly ten years: at KUSA in Denver and KARE in Minneapolis. My time was far past the good, old days for TV news but there was still enough money flowing through the business that I traveled a lot, had oodles of money for special projects, computer systems, new [...]
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Rogue Columnist (Free subscription) | yesterday
A reader asks, "how come you have not weighed in on the Gannett bloodbath that is going on with the layoffs all across the board? The Republic, as a big fish, should be pretty hard hit...I know there is no...
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Rum, Romanism and Rebellion (Free subscription) | yesterday
We’ve all heard about the nationwide cuts at Gannett. These are affecting us here in Arizona with the Republic cutting 68 jobs and offering “voluntary severance” to an additional 29. The New Times gives the names of the folks that are gone. The Citizen has not escaped the axe, with Dina Doolen and Blake Morlock [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) today announced that it has commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of its outstanding Floating Rate Notes Due 2009 (CUSIP No. 364725AF8 (the
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The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
What a system we have in America. One thousand people lost their jobs in the latest purge at Gannett Co. so naturally that is looked on as a positive sign by those buying and selling stocks. The company's stock price improved 19 cents per share Wednesday to close at $8.87. Of course, that is a far cry from the $39.50 per share Gannett recorded within the past calendar year.
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Reflections of a Newsosaur (Free subscription) | yesterday
The waves of agonizing layoffs at Gannett this week showed the power of crowdsourcing in the hands of a skilled journalist. Jim Hopkins, the former USA Today staffer who is the proprietor of the terrific Gannett Blog, urged his readers to report on the details of the layoffs at their papers. Soon, he began posting a comprehensive, rolling update of the carnage that, at this writing, is in its
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
-- Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week : Jim Hopkins, the former Gannett ( NYSE: GCI ) chronicling the company's travails, has had a busy two days tallying the 1,400 jobs that are now gone as of this week at the company's ailing newspapers. The job cuts are part of the 3,000 staffers at local papers Gannett said would have to go. Gannet made the announcement at the end of October....
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The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
The big news in the publishing industry in November was Gannett CEO Craig Dubow's 'selfless" decision to take a voluntary 17 percent pay cut out of his base salary. This, of course, was made public before a series of widely-publicized firings at Gannett newspapers, including 1,000 jobs this week, 19 of them at the Springfield News-Leader. And what the stories failed to mention was that Dubow's base...
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The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like cuts are being made at most Gannett Co newspapers today, with more news of cuts coming through. For the earlier round, see Hundred of Newspaper Jobs Cut. The latest, via the Gannett Blog, a blog set up by a former Gannett employee to track the cuts: Des Moines Register has a net loss of [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) will provide a live Webcast of its presentation by executive management at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference at 10:00 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday,
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
How does the saying go? When handed lemons make lemonade! Over at All Things D Peter Kafka is writing about the phenomenon of laid off reporters reporting on their own layoffs. At the Gannett Blog former Gannett employee Jim Hopkins has rounded up fellow un-employees (and there is plenty at Gannett this week!) and is getting them to send him their layoff stories: Unfortunately, there are a lot of...
