DFM bloodletting continues

Well there you go. And only Saunders and Champers have been there for any significant time.

I read somewhere that under union or some other rules newer hires go first. So if that's the case do they look at the sports departures and call it good or sports in general or just look at it newsroom wide and if the other three fall in the first to go list do they do it anyway and have no sports department?

What a sad, sad state. For a while at least sports stayed semi propped up, if anything because of the Broncos. Now they don't even have a Broncos writer!

 

This may be nit picking, but is every one of those departed people the victim of a layoff? No retirements, no departures on their own of any kind? That's certainly what is implied, that it was all layoffs.

 

How many have left because of pending layoffs or because of the overall environment caused by them? Even with many leaving on their own the powers that be decided to chop the staff to these levels so they probably would have been gone at some point anyway.

 

Serious question. What's the endgame for the owners? I can't imagine anyone in prosperous, growing Denver reading what's left of the Post online, let alone in print, and that goes treble for any business advertising in it. How do they make money with a product nobody wants because it's of no use?

 

The image that kicks off that video:

 

I saw John Meyer with a byline recently. What happened to him?

 

I was at a memorial gathering on Sunday for Randy Gray, former Daily Breeze of Torrance assistant sports editor. He retired in the early '90s and was in his mid-80s when he died.
The Daily Breeze was a flourishing Copley paper that offered total sports coverage -- pros, colleges, high schools -- and had a talented and dedicated staff. The pay was good and people wanted to stay.
When it was acquired and folded into the DFM group, it was totally trashed according to the formula. Layoffs, cutbacks, selling the land, renting office space, etc.
Most of the talk at this gathering was, of course, about the past. Just about everybody there was either retired, laid off or hanging on by their fingernails at reduced pay.
It's a sign of the times that everybody was upbeat and happy despite the dreary conditions of a business that most were involved with. The personal stories about Randy Gray were mostly amusing; there were tears when his widow spoke. But she was thankful that this Daily Breeze staff party was arranged.

 

The crazy thing is - it isn't like newspaper people suddenly expect to get a big salary bump after winning a Pulitzer. For most a stable job in a stable organization is enough.

 

Wasn’t Wolfe part of that group too?