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New York Times Offers Newsroom Buyouts; About 30 jobs will be eliminated
Adweek ^ | 12/3/12 | Emma Bazilian

Posted on 12/03/2012 2:42:48 PM PST by jimbo123

The New York Times is attempting to save costs by implementing another round of newsroom staff cuts. According to a memo sent by executive editor Jill Abramson this morning, the newspaper is looking for 30 buyouts among newsroom staff. Over the next few days, Abramson wrote, certain employees will be asked to accept voluntary severance packages. (Newspaper Guild members also have the option to apply for a buyout even if they’re not among those contacted by the NYT.) If the quota isn’t met through buyouts, Abramson will be “forced to go to layoffs,” she said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: layoffs; liberalmedia; nyt
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Merry Kwanza to the soon-to-be ex-exmployees of the NY Times!
1 posted on 12/03/2012 2:42:57 PM PST by jimbo123
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But, but these people are suppose to keep their jobs according to the Lefties.


2 posted on 12/03/2012 2:47:59 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Of course there are layoffs . . . how many staff do you need to reprint White House press releases?


3 posted on 12/03/2012 2:50:20 PM PST by AUTiger83
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Merry Xmas, NYT.


4 posted on 12/03/2012 2:55:18 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: jimbo123

The circle grows tighter...soon the sacred cows in the editorial department will be affected. Perhaps they might do a quality assessment and realize that Maureen Dowd has been submitting unintelligible word salads for over a decade.


5 posted on 12/03/2012 2:56:44 PM PST by relictele
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Please dear God....force that idiot Paul Krugman out the door....

The severs at HP would probably crash for all the wailing and gashing of teeth


6 posted on 12/03/2012 2:58:31 PM PST by Popman
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NY times need to become the Once Upon a Times.

They need to go out of business yesterday.


7 posted on 12/03/2012 3:00:54 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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Thank God most of these liberals have trust funds. Its a harsh world out there as they will soon discover.


8 posted on 12/03/2012 3:01:58 PM PST by samadams2000
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"Are There No Prisons? Are There No Workhouses?"

They will find a new home.

9 posted on 12/03/2012 3:07:58 PM PST by Average Al
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Hee! Hee! I feel like Scrooge ‘cause I’m really enjoying this.


10 posted on 12/03/2012 3:10:14 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: jimbo123; null and void; abb

NAV- I don’t know if you want to count these guys, heh

celebrate by finding their twitter and facebook accounts and posting the HA HA! sign


11 posted on 12/03/2012 3:15:06 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Average Al

30 new bloggers for Huffington and Politicus


12 posted on 12/03/2012 3:17:25 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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"30 new bloggers for Huffington and Politicus"

That is what I was thinking. 30 new parrots squawking in their mirrors.

13 posted on 12/03/2012 3:23:03 PM PST by Average Al
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Nothing would make me happier than to see thousands of jobs lost in the media. The ultimate revenge for gifting Obama with another term. I want to see every single Obama voter suffer the consequences of their lovefest


14 posted on 12/03/2012 3:24:22 PM PST by jersey117
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To: miss marmelstein

I hate to see anyone lose their job. But when people are just drones being feed every word to report what good are they? Nothing they write is worth reading anway.


15 posted on 12/03/2012 3:29:19 PM PST by Average Al
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I don’t like people losing their jobs, either. But The Times is a very dishonest paper - and I speak as one of their last subscribers!

Is it so wrong to hope this nasty paper goes out of business? If they do, I’ll switch to The Post.


16 posted on 12/03/2012 3:33:07 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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17 posted on 12/03/2012 3:40:53 PM PST by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Attempting to stave off the inevitable bankrptcy.

These *ssclowns apparently don’t yet know they’ve become utterly irrelevant.


18 posted on 12/03/2012 3:42:01 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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Anyone involved with the NYT can be necklaced for all I care. I’d contentedly sip a beer and watch.


19 posted on 12/03/2012 3:52:08 PM PST by VR-21
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NYT is "too big to fail."

Just wait.

20 posted on 12/03/2012 3:53:04 PM PST by FredZarguna (Shut 'er down Clancy. She's pumpin' mud.)
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