Posted on 07/16/2008 8:24:42 AM PDT by abb
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cut its workforce by 8 percent, some 184 jobs, and eliminate its "geographically targeted news sections" as part of a cost-cutting plan the paper announced Wednesday.
"The moves come amid an advertising revenue slump that has ravaged the newspaper industry and has been made worse by rising costs for fuel and newsprint," the paper reported.
The paper reported that "job cuts, which will occur between August and October, will mainly affect the news and advertising departments at the company. They will be accomplished through voluntary buyouts, layoffs and job eliminations." The company currently has about 2,300 full-time employees.
"The daily Gwinnett News section, as well as the weekly NorthSide, CityLife and NorthWest sections — all inserts in the main Journal-Constitution — will disappear starting in August," the story added, noting that "the AJC will maintain news bureaus in Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and North Fulton, adding that the daily newspaper's metro and sports sections will expand to handle coverage from those areas."
The paper stated that: "the cost of producing the separate community sections has become 'prohibitive,' citing a 35-percent jump in newsprint costs over the past year. The AJC last year eliminated similar sections for news in south metro Atlanta counties, and it also has cut the daily paper's circulation area."
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The irony in all of this is the increase in inks, transportation and other energy costs brought about by leftist energy policies is having the left eat their own.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/07/16/ajc_changes.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
AJC announces section changes, staffing cuts
http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13479
Journal-Constitution editor Julia Wallace’s memo to staff
They need to lay off half of the editorial board so they will only be 10 times more liberal than any paper in the South.
LMAO!
I must confess, I saw that somewhere on some thread last night. Can’t recall where and who it was, but the poster referred to reporters as ‘Obama embeds.’
So I can’t take credit, but I’m damn sure gonna use it, LOL!!
And no sign of them realizing why this is happening.
Great news BUMP!
Liberals still buy newspapers. The problem is the environmental policies that these papers support are going to put them out of business.
I wonder, do they think that people will agree to pay more for less?
Occasionally my wife buys a copy of the Sunday New York Times, brings it home and lays it on the table, I suppose out of old habit. I can’t see that she actually reads it, since it just lies around, scattered but unopened, until it goes into the recycle bin. At 5 dollars a pop, it strikes me as an expensive bit of nostalgia from the days when we used to read the newspaper at the breakfast table.
There was an article in the Style Section, which I sometimes get a kick out of, on the new fad for expensive dark glasses. One chic young New Yorker is quoted as saying that she now finds having the right kind of dark glasses is just as important as having plenty of shoes and handbags.
Then, no doubt, she will go to the polls and vote for Obama.
My biggest concern is that history will not ever teach people in the future that the MSM’s death was caused by self inflicted wounds.
They keep their circulation numbers artificially boosted by giveaways and hotel/convention traffic.
Every grocery store you walk into has some poor schmoo trying to persuade you to subscribe by offering all sorts of giveaway trinkets, chances to win a prize, etc.
Can't remember her last name, but her columns make me want to puke.
Just like Cynthia McKinney from Atlanta made me want to puke.
Which these idiots have been throwing in my driveway for free for years. They go straight in the recycling bin. Fire Tucker you dopes. Save that bloated salary, our IQs and you might sell a paper.
Excellent news. Cox owns the rag in my overwhelmingly Republican town. The only question each election cycle is which Democrat the editorial board will endorse in the primaries. It goes without saying that they’ll back the Dem in the general.
They will teach that the internet cause the death. The internet only made it faster.
If I want to read liberal tripe I can get it free in our local Creative Loafing. At least they are up front about being liberal.
If only Cox would dump Cynthia Tucker and Tom Teepen. At least Cynthia Tucker doesn't ooze hate; “Weepin Teepen” buys bile by the barrel.
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