Posted on 04/23/2020 4:32:44 PM PDT by usafa92
For a moment Tuesday, everything was wonderfully normal during a quick run to our Woodbridge office for supplies. The lights in the entryway danced off our three Pulitzer prizes, there was a sign on a broken coffee machine and my mailbox was overflowing with letters and magazines.
It felt like any other day in the office until I turned a corner and walked into our newsroom. That’s when it hit me: The place was empty and dark.
It has been the same at our offices in Trenton, Mullica Hill and Jersey City for more than six weeks now. Ditto for Flemington and Morristown.
These open offices were designed to be a place for innovation, camaraderie and hope. This is where we were re-imagining journalism, re-inventing ourselves and building a new future for an industry decimated by one financial crisis after another the past 15 years.
Today, the coronavirus is the latest challenge facing our industry, another body-blow that will thin the ranks of reporters, photographers, editors, sales representatives and production specialists at newspapers and websites across the country.
We learned of our cuts last week, even as our journalists were two months into some of the best work we have ever done. Our parent company, Advance Local, announced furloughs and temporary pay cuts. We also will temporarily lose the company’s 401k match, but we avoided layoffs.
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Seriously?
The lights in the entryway danced off our three Pulitzer prizes
Got woke, went broke.
The laws of economics are brutal but efficient.
LOLGF
Small fiddle.
Taking a page from the “never let a serious crisis go to waste” playbook, I think this is a good opportunity to cull the “news” media for good.
Now where’s that tiny little violin of mine?
The Pulitzer Prize lost a lot of its sheen in 1932.
No.
Learn to code? You know like how you told coal miners after shutting down their work under Obama?
Nope
Dear Newspapers,
JUST FREAKIN’ DIE ALREADY! The only advantage you have over electronic media is that I can’t wrap fish in a website.
Well Kevin, your’re gonna need to beg your libtard base.
Good luck with that.
Our daily newspaper, The Argus Leader, has been a mouthpiece for liberals for decades. I never subscribed and have no reason to do so now, especially.
It's been a long time since I viewed that as a positive achievement.
Babylon Bee article?
look the papers are good for starting the wood stove and in the spring, I use newspaper as a ground cover to prevent weeks...
“They” outsourced reporting for wire services a long time ago
The level of photo journalism in local papers these days it’s pathetic
Papers did away with local movie critics
Not much covered in the goings-on at City Hall in pretty large papers
So since the newspapers lag by 12 to 24 to 36 hours, and they don’t want to focus on local content, what are they providing the public?
Comic strips? Obituaries? Grocery ads?
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