Indianapolis Star to cut about 20 jobs through buyouts (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Poynter Online ^ | July 3, 2007 | Staff

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Greetings.

Faced with a pair of unappetizing choices -- endorse a voluntary severance package from the Indianapolis Star or face the prospect of layoffs -- your Indianapolis Newspaper Guild No. 70 signed a tentative agreement at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 29 following a 90-minute meeting with Star officials Ali Zoibi and James Keough. Many of you heard bits and pieces of the same information at separate meetings with Executive Editor Dennis Ryerson, who broke the news today.

This is what we know:

* The company plans to cut 20 positions throughout the building.

* If there is enough interest, management will consider slightly expanding that number.

* Both full-time and part-time employees are eligible to ASK to participate in the buyout.

* Unlike buyouts at some papers, there are no minimum eligibility requirements (such as length of service, age, etc.)

* The company alone will decide who is allowed to take a buyout.

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Tuesday Morning Good News!

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Link for memo to employees

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12703

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ping

[mission9]

You guys better be careful what you wish for. Pretty soon, Free Republic will have few articles from newspapers to post. We will have to write our own. It is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. I hope you are ready to swap your pajamas for a trench coat and khakis.

[John W]

The Star doesn’t allow jack to be posted here, so, no worries in that area regarding its demise.

[caver]

I think the Star was ought out by Gannett a few years ago.

[The Louiswu]

You are correct and they have been treating their workers like Sh*t every since. My wife worked there for several years, got out 6 months ago and has not looked back.

The Star has severe mismanagement at the top levels and Gannett should have cleaned house, starting with the publisher, a long time ago, instead they let top people drift away as nincompoops ran the place into the ground.

I hope the whole place drops off the face of the earth for all the pain they caused my beloved.

[raisincane]

Here in Marion, IN our Gannett newspaper, Chronicle-Tribune, was just sold to Paxton Media Group. I sincerely hope the change is a good one; C-T has been going down hill for some time.

[dforest]

The Indianapolis Star used to be owned by the Quayle family. It used to be a good conservative paper with great editorials and full of local articles posted by journalists.

After being sold to Gannett, it became a liberal rag of uselessness.

It still has uses for lining the hamster or birdcage, keeping oil off the driveway, wrapping dishes for a move, painting furniture on etc...If they didn’t print one word in it, it would still have its purpose.

[caver]

“You are correct and they have been treating their workers like Sh*t every since.”

That’s sad to hear. I used to subscribe to the Star for over 20 years. Then Gannett bought it, I was already reading more news on the net, so I dropped my subscription. I don’t feel so bad since Gannett bought it.

[Hegemony Cricket]

You are exactly 100% correct!

[dforest]

Does you hamster enjoy using the Star as carpet too? LOL

[Hegemony Cricket]

"It's a really good paper,"



"FOR ME TO POOP ON!"

[oblomov]

Good news indeed!

Am I hoping to much to wonder whether Matthew Tully might be among those affected?

[dforest]

ROTFLMAO!

Thanks

[Clint N. Suhks]

LMAO while listening to Bob and Tom

PING!

[Sir Hailstone]

Thanks!

Couldn’t happen to a better fish-wrapper. Maybe they’ll fire Matt Tully (their resident moonbat “political reporter”). Too bad it costs so much I’d get investors together to start a right wing paper here in Indy.

[Grampa Dave]

Martin Fierro has found this great link re what awaits the staff mediots re future employee reductions at the Dinosaur fishwraps and ABCNNBCBS. When their phoney businesses spiral down into the liberal cesspool of history, if they don't take the voluntary out plans or are not eligible for one.

"They get Nothing!"

[Milhous]

You guys better be careful what you wish for. Pretty soon, Free Republic will have few articles from newspapers to post.

The sooner fishwrap disinformation fades into oblivion the better. New media reporter Michael Yon just broke a story on al Qadia massacring a whole village in Iraq. Big old mass media chose to mostly ignore the story. Commenting on big old mass media's preoccupation with other stories Yon notes that

... On this question of media selectivity, the blogosphere has become incensed that big media mostly ignored the murders, especially given that there are reporters currently in Baqubah. Newsbusters and countless others are on it. More disturbing to many bloggers is that major mainstream players were busted (again) by Pajamas Media just days ago for reporting outright fabrications of a “massacre” that never occurred. ...

Big old mass media's "top" stories for today starts with:

• Diverse group allegedly in British plot (eg medicine guilty, Islamofascism innocent)
• Bush won't rule out full Libby pardon
• Giuliani camp pulls in $15M; Romney $12M
• Methane gas kills 5 on Virginia farm
• Atlanta lawyer has less severe form TB

Given that most of big old mass media's top stories concern politics conservatives will get much better mileage out of new media sites such as National Review Online, Cyber News Service, and Front Page Magazine to name but a few of countless new media sites offering political news.

[mission9]

Speaking of posthumous truth telling. What did you think of E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession of LBJ complicity in the Kennedy assassination? Ian Plunkett of C2C, says that insiders at CNN will never report that story because of their own history. The MSM has pretty much ignored this whopper of a story.