Digital First pursuing Gannett

I agree with this so much. If you don't jump stories, you can get pages done early. It's all about copy, design and page-to-press flow. I remember talking to someone at another paper where their policy was basically: If the story is long enough to jump, you're better off splitting it into two stories, one outside and one on an inside page.

 

One of the mysteries of the publishing industry is what the Newhouse's are going to do. The Newhouse family has a reputation that they do not sell newspapers, period. But they are not buying anything, For example Gatehouse jsut bought Akron for 16 million. You would expect Newhouse to have jumped all over that, considering all the other Northern Ohio properties they own.

 

And Newhouse let all of those Jersey and southeast Pennsylvania Calkins papers go to GateHouse. Imagine the Star Ledger also with the Burlington County Times and the Easton paper with the Bucks County Courier-Times.

 

I think Newhouse has given up on expansion, that’s why they gutted the Trenton Times and didn’t buy any more NJ papers. Anyone know the current circulation of the Star Ledger? The NJPAs web site shows 2016 data.

 

In the fun facts department from the Ken Doctor blog. He says that Bob Dickey checked out as CEO of Gannett a year ago. Dickey spends a lot of time telecommuting from his home in Bend, Oregon and is not around the office enough.

Newsonomics: Tribune’s Thursday night surprise rescrambles the consolidation puzzle

 

Word of some of the people who took the buyout in Detroit are trickling in
Notable at The News is longtime Tigers writer and columnist Lynn Henning, who had been at The News for 40 years and wrote a column for The Detroit Sunday Journal during the stroke
At the Free Press, longtime columnist Rochelle Riley and sports writer Perry Ferrell are leaving
Freep says there will be no layoffs but that could change if DFM buys Gannett
As it turns out, Henning retired rather than take a pay cut
Among others asked to take a pay cut are Bob Wojnowski and Neal Rubin

Detroit News Asks Columnists Wojo, Henning and Rubin to Take Pay Cuts

 

There have been some people talking about layoffs this week, possibly in Indy.

 

I know Gannett has had buyouts, but are cuts also coming?

 

If enough people don’t take the buyouts, sure. I think a lot of places have current openings, so some of those jobs may be absorbed into others to avoid layoffs.

 

The saddest part about the newspaper industry is that most papers don't have enough staff to fill even the meager newsholes papers have these days.

 

From Monterey County Weekly.

If the Herald’s owner succeeds in buying Gannett, local journalism loses big.