Posted on 01/13/2007 7:17:19 PM PST by freedomdefender
Time Inc. next week is expected to say goodbye to up to 20 staffers at each of its titles across editorial, production and business functions, sources said. Though the number of jobs to be eliminated is not yet final, one insider commented, "No one there is safe." As if losing one's job isn't hard enough, sources also said the once-cushy severance packages are expected to be less generous than in previous years.
Time, Fortune, Real Simple, Life and Money were among the titles hit during last winter's round of job cuts. Layoffs this month are expected across a wide swath of titles, from Sports Illustrated to even the golden child of the company, People.
People staffers for the most part dodged the bullet in the last two rounds of job cuts, but as consultant firm McKinsey & Co. has critiqued each magazine to find better operational efficiencies, sources said Time Inc. may finally do away with People's siloed system of editing, writing and reporting. "They're trying to unravel that," said one source close to the company. And when they do, "you end up with a bunch of attrition." Last month, People changed some of its editing processes so that some stories would be reported, written and fact-checked by the same person.
Entertainment Weekly, which also escaped relatively unscathed during last year's layoffs, is expected to lose staffers, as are Fortune and Time. McKinsey, incidentally, is expected to continue working with Time Inc. for an unspecified time period. A spokeswoman for Time Inc. declined comment Thursday.
Maybe so, but they're not getting anything from me.
I'm enjoying this wayyy too much.
Re your post 12, call me a sadist but I'm enjoying this too!
' orthodontist to cancel their subscriptions
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Magazines come to my office for free and completely unsolicited. I don't need to subscribe. I throw those mags with ads and photos that border on porn in the trash as soon as they arrive in the mail.
Excellent! Thanks for your reply.
This is good. I used to subscribe to Time. Then when I didn't subscribe I'd buy it occasionally. Now I won't even read it for free in the doctor's office.
my barber and the kids' orthodontist to cancel their subscriptions
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Tell you kid's orthodontist and your barber how you feel about Time magazine. Tell them you object to its political bias, and that it reflects badly on their offices.
Chances are, the next time your at the barber or orthodontist Time magazine won't be there.
That is a very good graphic george, I snitched it from you.
Thanks.
I snitched it from someone else.
These graphics are like golf balls...I find them in the woods, use them for a while, then lose them for someone else to find and enjoy later.
I was surpised to see how "NG" has changed in the past twenty years. TIME I gave up on more than five years ago and I no longer look at National Geographic.
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