Posted on 03/05/2007 11:56:43 AM PST by abb
NEW YORK The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colo., slashed 33 positions on Friday. President and Publisher P. Scott McKibben cited "an evolving media landscape" for the staff reduction, reported the paper.
The move affected employees across all departments, including 10 in the newsroom. Ten of the 33 jobs eliminated were empty positions.
The 98,069-circ daily, owned by Freedom Communications, has 475 full time people on staff after the reductions.
The paper also reported that 21-year vet and editorial cartoonist Chuck Asay has retired.
Management at the Gazette analyzed the operations and came to the conclusion that other staff could handle the 33 positions. "Based on the way we see the world today, for the next few years going out, we think we are currently right-sized," McKibben told his papers.
"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."
With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...
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I'm not sure about Raoul in this case. This is a right-leaning newspaper.
I cancelled my subscription to the Gazette ~2 months ago.. Reading the paper in the morning I noticed I kept saying: "I already knew this..."
Right-leaning newspaper for Co. Springs makes sense. A traditional values town for sure. It does sound like they were overstaffed though.
I disagree. Although some of its editorials could be considered non-liberal, its overall presentation of news and events, and especially its front page were as bad as any MSM rag. We canceled our subscription a month ago after a repeated series of slanted war coverage articles covering the front page. Looks like we're just part of a growing crowd.
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