DFM bloodletting continues

OCR got the double-whammy a few years ago being bought by an inept hedge fund -- Kushner and Spitz were the culprits.

 

A hedge fund has been running CSX for the past year, a quick Google will reveal the horrendous result. Stock prices aren't the be-all end-all for running a business, particularly where lives are at stake.

 

How many are left in the sports section? How many did the Rocky have when it closed. Staffing must of been similar to the Post at that time. I am just wondering about how much staff has been reduced in nine years?

Did Jhabvala get fired. She was on the Broncos. Will the Post only have one staffer on the Broncos?

 

I was told the actual layoffs at the Denver Post aren't going to happen for a couple weeks. Yesterday was just an announcement that they are coming. So no actual names yet.

 

As the Post has cut staff in sports I have noticed they have relied more and more on their sister papers in Boulder County and Loveland to provide material on CU and CSU. Do you know if there is anything in the union contract that limits how much work DFM can outsurce. For example, what is stop Loveland from hiring an Avalanche beat reporter at Loveland wages and the Post axing their guy?

 

This is kind of a random question - but considering the downturn in manufacturing jobs, coal jobs etc., and government efforts to help people in those industries - is there anything government can do or should do to help people affected by the job losses in the news industry? It isn't just newspapers, but radio and TV as well. Seems like most of the government "help" has only served to make it easier for companies to do "more" with less.

 

Washington Post takes a look.

Perspective | Is this strip-mining or journalism? ‘Sobs, gasps, expletives’ over latest Denver Post layoffs.

Chickenshits.

I tried to talk to someone in Alden’s New York headquarters on Wednesday to ask about the apparently counterproductive strategy of endless cuts but was told no one was there to speak to the news media. When I asked to be connected to managing director Heath Freeman’s office, the receptionist hung up on me

 

Ran across this on Facebook. Littwin says Alden is "looting the public trust."

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/169314/littwin-denver-post-rocky-alden-anschutz-boycott