New York Daily News

Richard Deitsch had Frank Isola on his podcast to discuss the layoffs:

Frank Isola, Clifton Brown and Ben Reiter

 

They moved all the design (other than the front and back pages) to Chicago in early June. It's not good.

Still just very shocked and sad about how the place has been gutted. Typical corporate crap. They cut the staff in half. Give readers very little reason to buy it. And I've read they're planning to raise the price from $1 to $1.50.

I know the print biz is mostly dead. But it didn't have to go downhill this quickly for what was once a great sports department.

 

I only subscribe to the dollar a month through version Kindle. I read the sports section about twice a week. From what I have seen they seem to have reporters covering the Jets and the Giants. One woman (I forgot the name) writes baseball stories. The gamers are from the wire services and then she writes something on one of the teams.

 

Kristie Ackert. Has been the Mets beat writer, now appears with be covering Mets and Yankees when they are at home.

 

Thanks. That's worth a listen. Candid stuff from Isola.

 

There was a NYDN subscription table at an event I attended yesterday. When the guy waved the print paper at the people walking in front of me I said, "You know half the staff got fired last week?" Those people looked shocked and kept walking. I feel a little bad for messing with the guy's commission... but only a little.

 

Admittedly from afar, I’m pro-NYDN from 3 minds.

1. The NYDN provides some content for the wire service we use which is far inferior to AP.

2. I love their covers, both front and back.

3. One of their former interns found a home at my paper and is kicking ass.

Since the Post is as anti-Trump as anyone else, the pauly tyqz btween them seems mostly a wash.

 

The discussion about the travails of the New York Daily News lead me to ask how the Chicago Sun-Times is doing. Does it feel like the new ownership group is "making it" or does it feel like the paper is a dead man walking?

 

It feels like all papers are dead men walking.

 

Not dead yet. All you have to do is visit their Web site to see how twitching and flailing that place has become. Unreadable.

What about tronc flagship, the Chicago Tribune? I think they took some cuts a number of months ago, but are they in line for more? That town used to be a vibrant 4-paper market but now it seems like it's down to 1/2 vs. 1/3.

 

I would like to credit Isola for a candid interview. He was not whiny. He was EXCELLENT!! Best wishes Mr. Isola. You are a true professional and gentleman! You are better than those suits at the top who will get their $5 million Christmas bonuses no matter what. You know what strikes me whenever a Hall of Famer like Isola gets shown the door? The higher ups don't realize what a national punch line their organization has become. The suits think Isola is expendable. They think his work is not necessary nor is it even special. They think they can get rid of all of the Hall of Famers replace them for 1/3 the salary and their end goal is still the same. Make sure the owners/CEOs get their vacation homes and bonuses and houses in Switzerland paid for. Getting rid of Isola and the other Hall of Famers on that staff is shameful (and I realize nobody in charge cares one isola, not one). You are the laughingstock of the business world, New York Daily News. We all know what you are up to. All of us.