Posted on 11/05/2011 3:29:15 AM PDT by abb
Layoffs have come to the Daily News.
Since this morning, staffers to be laid off have been getting called into a conference room to meet with senior vice president of human-resources Jeff Zomper. They're being told the layoffs are part of a "downsizing" operation at the paper. The layoffs aren't yet complete, (The New York Observer and the New York Post are putting the total number at 10); we've confirmed the names of a few of those who've been laid off so far.
Bob Kappstatter, a 43-year veteran of the paper who just turned 68, was one of them.
"It's been a great ride, I've loved this paper; it's been the best job in the world," Kappstatter, whose most recent title was Deputy Police Bureau Chief, told Capital. "I've seen and done things I never would have done anywhere else. I look forward to staying in the business. I'm available!"
Other victims of the downsizing are long-time political reporter Frank Lombardi; federal courts reporter Scott Shifrel; City Hall reporter Kate Lucadamo; and long-time staff photographer John Roca.
Asked about the layoffs, spokesperson Jennifer Mauer would only say, "we don't comment on personnel matters."
The News is in the throes of some internal tumult. Managing editor and tabloid veteran Stuart Marques was reportedly pushed out Oct. 14, though not all reports seemed sure that he didn't quit.
The managing photo editor also resigned this week and will leave the paper at the end of the month, as Capital first reported last night.
Last week editor in chief Kevin Convey brought the managing editors into a meeting telling them he was restructuring the top of the masthead, according to the New York Post's Keith Kelly.
They would name three new managing editors: One editor from the digital side, one "senior editor of convergence," who is working on integrating the digital and print newsrooms, and a third who'd been Senior Executive Editor.
This replaced a structure in which seven managing editors, each with their own departments, reported to Convey.
Kelly also reported that the M.E.'s appealed to chief executive William Holliber about the changes.
Another change: Arthur Brown's jump from the editorial pages to the No. 2 position at the paper, under Convey.
Convey is rumored to be under the gun. But during an online chat with readers last week, he put a positive spin on all the change at the paper.
"We're in the midst of a reorganization right now to bring the print and web staffs together for the first time, make the company digital first, and make all of our content platform-agnostic," he said. "We're always looking for ways to get better."
The staff reductions come at the end of a week that started off on a high note for the News. Data released Tuesday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that the paper had moved up the auditor's rankings to become the No. 4 top-selling daily in the U.S.
FYI, some OWS type is now sending me FReepmails, barely coherent, about the evil 1% based on my comment on this thread. We’ve been infiltrated!
I got one too. He/she signed up this morning. A likely candidate for zotting, doncha think?
It is a total Bamster political organ, Mike Lupica needs to retire and go to the home. The Cain Caning in the Gnu Yak Daily Gnus is repulsive.
TPS Boston is the username I got
The layoff of 10 people isn’t really any kind of major national news but the warm fuzzy feeling I get from hearing that these uber-liberals have pooped and fallen back into it makes my day.
Now, they can have their 99 weeks of unemployment and then move to welfare. Ain’t life a bitch?
Settings to “sporkweasel”...
Oh, goodie, I’m in a club!
Where’s darkwing, he does good zot...
From TPS Boston in my mailbox.
They do have bizarre persecution complexes, don't they?
Is that the same crap I just got from TPS Boston?
Who do we report this to?
I’m just ignoring him. Poor thing, he’s too cold to go out and occupy, I guess.
How is that recovery working out for them? ;-)
Sounds like the Unitarian Church. ;-)
Looks like we need to start the salons back up, don't we?
Say, if you're not doing anything else this weekend, and LSU football doesn't count among us libtard elites, then why not shell out a quarter of a mill on some media influence.
Or, you and a few of your buddies could take out a $50,000 perpetual indenture and buy your GED.
MeeMaw would like that.:)
s/ Katharine
Back in the early seventies when all the radical bombings were happening in mid-town NYC, there were many times our design office worked very late. A few of us single guys would retire to a hole in the wall bar across the street from the back of the NY Daily News building. Got chances to talk to some old time reporters before the sainted coming of "The Journalists" and PC. The old timers did real reporting of local government and crime beats and had great stories.
The quality of reporting was going downhill well before the advent of the interwebs.
Historic trivia-photo of The New York Daily News Building lobby.
Always thought it was the inspiration for "Superman Comics" Daily Planet, but Wiki says no.
What about Mike Daly?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
I got several from one person - somebody named TPS Boston
I pointed it out to the Admin Mod.
Haven’t got one in a while now.
2 1/2 years ago I started my own newsblog and began doing real reporting. I cover city council, county commission, court cases, school board, etc. I’ve really enjoyed it.
I get to be around real “journalists” and compete with them heads up on the quality of reporting. They can say it is a “profession” all they want, but all that’s needed to do it well is the ability to listen, take legible notes and write a coherent sentence.
It ain’t rocket science.
Woot Woot! Just got a new one:
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Former Wash. Post editor discusses Cain sexual harassment story
From TPS Boston | 11/05/2011 4:56:45 AM PDT new
You are brainwahsed by the POS crap Tea Party.
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