TIME INC. LAYS OFF 250

Media Works News...AdAge ^ | April 07, 2006 | Nat Ives

[george76]

Mid-Level Business Staffers Hit Hardest...

Time Inc. eliminated another 250 jobs today in its latest, largest and, perhaps, last round of cutbacks.

The mid-level and junior-level workers shown the door almost all came from the business side of operations at a long list of titles.

"As Time Inc. continues to evolve from a magazine publisher to a multiplatform media company, we're continuing to look at our cost base and how to run our business more efficiently and effectively.

In doing so, unfortunately, we've had to eliminate a number of positions."

"But it's not just about cost cutting," Ms. Zelenko added...

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the good news ping.

[DoughtyOne]

Some of you have mentioned "these threads" in your comments on this thread. Look folks, when it comes to illegal immigrants taking U.S. Citizens jobs, when it comes to transferring jobs offshore, when it comes to moving manufacturing jobs overseas, there's a morbid silence on this forum from a lot of folks.

I mention that I don't mind at all that a leftist rag's employees are being laid off, and all of a sudden some of you gain sensitivity to job layoffs.

If these folks work for Time, they are working for a publishing media conglomerate that has spent at least the last decade trying to destroy much of what you believe in. Pardon me for not being very sympathetic as their empire crumbles.

[jimbo123]

MOORE, ANN
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME WARNER
5/10/2004
$1,000
Carper, Tom

MOORE, ANN
NEW YORK,NY 10020
TIME INC
5/19/2003
$1,000
Daschle, Tom

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME INC
3/3/2005
$1,000
Collins, Susan M

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME INC
6/30/2003
$1,000
Leahy, Patrick

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME INC./CHAIRMAN
11/14/2003
$1,000
Waxman, Henry A

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME INC./CHAIR/CEO
6/8/2005
$500
Maloney, Carolyn B

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME
4/19/2002
$500
Schumer, Charles E

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME
4/19/2002
$500
Schumer, Charles E

MOORE, ANN
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
8/7/1995
$1,000
Emily's List

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
1/29/1993
$1,000
Emily's List

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
5/27/1994
$1,000
Women's Campaign Fund

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME WARNER INC
12/22/1993
$1,000
Emily's List

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME
4/30/1997
$500
Leahy, Patrick J

MOORE, ANN S
NEW YORK,NY 10020
TIME WARNER INC
5/12/1992
$1,000
Emily's List

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
7/22/1991
$1,000
National Republican Senatorial Cmte

MOORE, ANN S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME WARNER INC
7/21/1992
$250
Feinstein, Dianne

MOORE, ANNE S
BROOKLYN,NY 11201
TIME WARNER INC
6/22/1990
$1,000
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte

[D-Chivas]

The only place I ever see this magazine is in waiting rooms. I'm not kidding. Who reads this junk anymore, besides others in the MSM?

You are SOOOOOOOOOO right! The only "time" I read Time is when getting my oil changed. It's a horrible rag.

[albee]

"LIFE"...The magazine for people who can't read!

"TIME"...The magazine for people who can't think!

[BlessedByLiberty]

Excellent analysis.

MSM, as other industries, either keep up with technology and consumer demand or cease to exist in that form. It's as simple and as complicated as that.

Another factor is the Balkanized younger market - the market MSM are trying to lure - spend more time on computers, video games and with friends then on newspapers, network news or news magazines.

Think Couric is going to appeal to that demographic?

[Tzimisce]

He really means: "As a meat eating dinosaur in an environment that is rapidly changing, we can no longer find food. Thus we're slimming down..."

[abb]

Hear, hear.

[EnquiringMind]

Anybody have an idea of how cheap a one-year subscription is? Dirt cheap. That probably helps their circulation a tiny bit.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks.

[TheForceOfOne]

Well, it's about TIME, and long overdue. :P

[proudpapa]

Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin...

into the future...unemployment line.

[CFC__VRWC]

What is so funny about people losing their jobs? Liberal or not.

As far as I'm concerned, losing their jobs is the least that media liberals deserve. I have about as much sympathy for them as I do for al Qaeda terrorists who lose their jobs by getting fried by our military. At least the terrorists admit that they hate us and hate this country.

The hell with them. Let 'em move out to San Francisco and panhandle and piss in the streets. They're not good for anything else, and the freaks out there apparently love this kind of human debris.

[Beckwith]

She seems very pleased with herself and will probably get a big bonus at the end of the year for firing an average of 100 employees per month.

[ARCADIA]

"Time Inc. eliminated another 250 jobs today in its latest, largest and, perhaps, last round of cutbacks."

"last round of cutbacks"? I doubt it.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Yup.

Back to the tarpits with CNN/MSNBC/NYT/Time Magazine/USA Today/etc...

They won't survive, and rightly so.

[Polyxene]

LOL! Good ones!

[george76]

"last round of cutbacks..."

This month.

[george76]

A little less money for the DUmmies.

[Malesherbes]

Job Retraining 101 for former journalists: "You want fries with that?"