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http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
Day 3: Job losses near 1,800; Salinas whacks 31%

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003919207
‘Chicago Tribune’ Reportedly Cutting More Newsroom Employees

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003919187
Evening Update on Gannett Cuts — and Response

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http://bristolnews.blogspot.com/
The city needs its newspaper, community leaders say

http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2008/December/nt/12-08_consolidation.htm
Consolidation torrent continues

http://www.newsandtech.com/dateline/12-03-08_date.htm
Gannett closing 2 more plants

[bert]

...... “high tech” was switching from coffee mugs of wallpaper paste to rubber cement .......

My first real job after graduating was in a US Navy office of engineers that were all Project Managers. They shepherded construction projects through the funding mazes and the Congress. I learned the status symbol in the office was a rubber ball, the size of a tennis ball or larger. It was made of rubber cement and grew from picking up the dried rubber cement ooze from pasting up line items on a spread sheet. As changes were made, the line item was typed on a narrow strip and then pasted onto the spread sheet.

I was there a month before being transferred out to a real construction job site and real project manager. Whew.... was that ever a good day.