Posted on 10/01/2014 9:54:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
The New York Times has announced that it will eliminate roughly 100 jobs from its newsroom through buyouts and, if need be, layoffs.
The cuts, announced Wednesday by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and chief executive Mark Thompson, are part of the Times' larger effort to stem costs and restructure for a more digital future. The Times has already eliminated at least 230 newsroom positions since 2008, even as it continues to staff up on the digital and development side. The new cutbacks should leave the Times with roughly 1,200 newsroom staff.
“The job losses are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times, but we know that they will be painful both for the individuals affected and for their colleagues,” Sulzberger and Thompson wrote to staff.
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Is MoDo learning to say “do you want fries with that?”
Who says there’s never any good news?
What the heck? Not enough liberals buying the paper or subscribing to the website to get propaganda???, what the heck???
“””””””The new cutbacks should leave the Times with roughly 1,200 newsroom staff. “”””””
It takes that many people to write propaganda and fiction?
I’m shocked to learn they still had a newsroom. I thought it was just one guy copying down everything BamBam said.
in an effort to prevent further global warming/climate change...they should eliminate all of their jobs. It’s for the children.
The thing that continues to amaze me is that they continue to shrink as their revenues and circulation die, but somehow they never manage to go out of business! I mean for how many years can you have your circulation lose double digits and still remain a viable entity?
Only a matter of time till they start beating the drum to tax the internet and subsidize dead tree newspapers.
You, son, are an optimist.
The NYT can no more change its "stripes" (not one single one) than a tiger can.
The Rag has something up its proverbial sleeve.
Looks like Grand Central and Times Square are about to be flooded with a whole new wave of cheap prostitutes.
I bet they keep the guy who gets the faxed stories from the White House.
Good, it’s a start. Another 1,200 eliminated from the newsroom staff and we can declare Mission Accomplished.
It's my opinion that the Rag is being kept alive by donations from wealthy, visible and invisible Democrats.
That WOULD include Hollyweird.
Why do they need personnel? Most of the news from the NYT is fictive writing anyway.
Why does the NYT even have newsroom editors. All they do is take the talking points from Obama’s press office and put it to print.
Women, children and minorities hardest hit!........................
Paul et al: I DON'T believe it.
The people they "let go" will simply be "restructured" to another part of the conspiracy organization.
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