Posted on 08/16/2007 12:02:34 PM PDT by abb
Topic: Miscellaneous items Date/Time: 8/16/2007 1:57:51 PM Title: Three Express-News AMEs lose jobs in downsizing Posted By: Jim Romenesko
On Thursday, Romenesko was forwarded this e-mail written by a San Antonio Express-News staffer:
We had a round of layoffs yesterday, which followed some early retirements. Twenty managers throughout the paper got the ax. Three were assistant managing editors in editorial: news resource (there are four or five people who do nothing but research for reporters and graphics); the graphics art and photo AME and the projects/Sunday AME.
I asked the paper for confirmation. Editor Bob Rivard is off taking his son to college, but Express-News public editor Bob Richter sent this e-mail:
I can confirm the newsroom layoffs only; not sure yet about the total number paperwide. Here are the newsroom positions lost: Hallie Paul, assistant managing editor/design, graphics and photo; Kathy Foley, assistant managing editor/news research and technology; and Robert Kaiser, assistant managing editor/Sunday and writing coach. Their final day on the payroll is Aug. 31. As an aside, Hallie Paul had planned to retire from the newspaper in the coming year.
My understanding is there was not a memo or written notice from corporate. Bob Rivard made an announcement to editors at the news budget meeting Wednesday afternoon, and asked them to pass along the word to the rest of the staff.
These cuts were obviously difficult to make, but the goal was to preserve key newsgathering and production positions. To that point, it's worth noting that the Express-News filled three reporting vacancies this week, bringing the reporting corps up to full staffing.
"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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LOL! perfect.
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I used to be a paperboy for the Express & News back around 64/65. It paid for my Vespa. It makes me a little sad to hear this.
I feel pretty good about this.
I'm a news junkie from 'way back. Grew up with newspapers. The old Shreveport Times (conservative) and the afternoon Shreveport Journal (very conservative). In later years the Journal became a screaming moonbat liberal paper until it was driven out of business by the Times which had been taken over by Gannet. It too became a moonbat paper and it still is. I didn't leave them. They left me. As I suspect the E & N did you.
But as abb says, they left me many decades ago. So be it.
Samurai squirrel could be behing them, hard to tell, lol.
Didn’t have room for the AXE!!
"Sorry, Hallie, I know your pension doesn't fully vest until the end of the year, but you know, business is business. Take care now."
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