Houston Chronicle offering buyouts

There will be unfilled positions in Beaumont, but none in sports.

 

Looks like the hammer fell in H-Town today. Some very talented people got clipped. Don't know about sports, but I think they lost some desk help.

 

FYI. Beaumont also recently cut 17, laying off the press crew and outsourcing it to Houston. Great for deadlines.

 

Over-under on the last printed newspaper in America?

I've got seven years, but it's a weekly.

 

I'm betting it won't be the one we're talking about here.

Word is that they're handing over their Texas A&M coverage to the San Antonio Express-News. The beat guy's reward? Moved to desk.

Heck of a job, indeed.

 

That actually is a logical move that should've been made a few years ago.

 

Nope. Over. Small papers (dailies with < circ 15K) will stay, if for nothing else than to keep town/city/village government honest and to run all the "Oh look, Johnny Turdfucker's at Siena College!" briefs.

 

So the beat guy got moved to the desk. At least he still has a job.

 

I hate the move. It makes the Chronicle look small-time not to cover the giant Division-I University down the road ... especially when Houston probably has one of the biggest bases of A&M-exes in the state.

More than that, a paper based in San Antonio isn't going to cover the team the same way a paper based in Houston will. Tne local angles are different.

I guess in this day and age, it's anything to save a buck, and maybe the cost-reduction is worth the trade-off here. I just think it sucks and it's sad.

 

Makes no sense. Then again, nothing does in this field these days.

 

E-N guy, Brent Zwerneman, lives in College Station. He's the one who broke the story on Fran's secret newsletter last year, so the Chron won't suffer using his copy.

 

Terrence Harris got moved to desk?