from Herald: more job cuts at the Globe
Globe faces more job cuts
By Jesse Noyes
Boston Herald Business Reporter
Boston Globe employees face a big round of job cuts, with as many as 19 editorial jobs on the chopping block, according to internal memos obtained by the Herald.
A memo from Publisher P. Steven Ainsley said The New York Times [NYT] Co.’s New England Media Group, which includes the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is looking to slash 125 jobs.
A separate memo from Globe Editor Martin Baron says about 17 jobs will be cut from the broadsheet’s newsroom and two positions will be lost from the paper’s opinion pages.
Some open positions in the newsroom will also be frozen, the Baron memo said.
The New England Media Group will offer voluntary buyouts to employees who have worked at the company for 10 years or more, according to Ainsley’s memo. The company is also planning to outsource a number of jobs, the memo states.
Employees at Boston.com will not be affected by the round of layoffs, the memo states.
Baron, who is out of town, sent the memo to newsroom staff. The broadsheet’s top editor was apparently surprised by the timing of the announcement. In the memo he said he expected to “be in the newsroom when the announcement was made.”
“As we have done in the past, we will re-examine all of our work, looking for ways to streamline and reorganize,” Baron said in the memo. “And as with past buyouts, we will have to make hard choices, even discontinuing some work.”
Part of Howie's column for tomorrow is already up at the Herald site
Listen to me, Tom Finneran. I’ll always be there for you when you have a problem at the radio station.
Think of me as your probation officer. Whenever you’re gripped with an overwhelming state-rep urge to, say, steal a hot stove, come to Mr. Carr. Consider me the ankle bracelet you should be wearing. And incidentally, keep your sticky felon fingers off my headphones in the studio. I have the phone number in Judge Stearns’ lobby, pal. You could still end up on the BOP.gov website under “Inmate Locator.”
It would be easy to make jokes about this latest development in the one-man crime wave that is the former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
I could say, there goes the neighborhood.
Or that radio companies just aren’t making moral-turpitude clauses like they used to.
But hey, as much as I wish that Finneran had gone to prison, where he so obviously belongs, he’s now working with me, so I’m trying to look on the bright side. Like, are the rumors true about how much money he’s getting - 400 large, a half-million? That would be real good news for me, because a rising tide lifts all boats.
John F. Kennedy said that. He was never convicted of obstruction of justice, by the way.
Talk about a guy who was down to his underwear in the great strip poker game of life. Finneran had just been forced out of his $416,000 job, God willing, he’ll be disbarred, or at the very least suspended from the practice of law, and he’ll lose his $30,000 state pension - knock on wood.
Cripes, if he doesn’t get the job at my radio station, his fallback was the IHOP on Soldiers Field Road. You know what they say. When one door closes, another one opens.
In Felon Finneran’s case, it was going to be a swinging door, into the IHOP kitchen.