New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newsflash - extinguished Poet Laureate launches Christmas card range - small crowd underwhelmed. May Santa give you gifts galore Some socks, some soap, and much, much more But, fingers crossed, now things are black Let's hope...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Once upon a time in Coronation Street ... SCENE One : The gorgeous Hayley, wife of Roy, is alone at a table in the empty cafe, morosely dipping her tearstained hanky into a steaming mug of tea then sucking its comforting corner...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Gannett reporter and editor Jim Hopkins and is asking Gannett employees to provide information about the job cuts of hundreds of staff via the Gannett blog, according to Poynter....
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...
MediaMemo (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
What happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers? They report on their own firings. That's what's happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about--Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied...
Poynter Online (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Yesterday Gannett laid off hundreds of employees around the country. Today, former Gannett reporter and editor Jim Hopkins , who now publishes the Gannett Blog , is once again tracking the paper-specific job losses via crowdsourcing: Roll call III: Say goodbye to more of your friends . Hopkins has requested Gannett employees to provide information (via comments to his post) about the...
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...
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...
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and Altoona Herald announced a total of 71 job cuts . According to a tally being kept by Jim Hopkins at GannettBlog, Gannett’s downsizing has now claimed 1,770 newspaper jobs nationwide thus far. More layoffs are expected to be announced.
slacktivist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to that part of the movie. I'll try to catch up with you tomorrow. * * * Here's a bit more from Jim Hopkins' Gannett blog linked to in the previous post: " Documents reveal double-digit profit margins at scores of papers now on verge of massive layoffs ." Hopkins got his hands on a Cost & Statistical Summary report for the chain covering the first three quarters of 2007. As he says:...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... all over the country, and being newspaper folks, they obviously write up their experiences well. Jim Hopkin’s Gannett Blog has some very heartfelt and honest reporting going on today. For hockey fans who worry about the level of attention the NHL gets from the mainstream media, it will be interesting to see how deeply, if at all, this affects the level of hockey coverage in the daily press....
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Gannett Blog Jim Hopkins got that figure from a Gannett internal report, which covers the first three quarters of 2007. "The numbers are startling -- especially now, with Gannett poised to lay off perhaps thousands of newspaper workers [this week] in another bid to boost the company's flagging stock," he writes. "Every [Gannett] newspaper except Detroit's was profitable a year ago -- although...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Gannett Blog "I brought a gun to work but decided not to use it," someone wrote in the comments section of Gannett Blog. Webmaster Jim Hopkins tells his readers: "I grew concerned enough to e-mail Gannett's chief spokeswoman, Tara Connell . It prompted an investigation [last] weekend involving Corporate, the U.S. Justice Department, the F.B.I., and Internet giant Google, according to Gannett....
