Tennessean happyspeak

Does anybody else feel that "our employees will have the opportunity to choose the jobs they want to apply for" mean bad things?

 

I thought counting minorities in the stories was the journalism of the future? It's not? What about something about Real Life, Real News? Or giving a new nickname to the newsroom? Something like ... I know... an Information Center! This is going to take some blue balls to implement.

 

I think it would be hysterical if everyone applied for the EE's job.

 

Heck, I can "choose to apply for" the position of Chief Cardiac Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. Means nothing.

 

A bit of a reality check here. I don't think Dave Ammenheuser has much to worry about. Everyone is having to reapply for jobs, but his principal patron - the who brought him there from Riverside - isn't one of those having to reapply for her job.

FYI: Among the people spared this absurd process is David Climer. He and a couple of other non-sports columnists got the get-out-of-jail-free card.

But the reapplying process is just kabuki theater. They decided who they were going to keep and who they were going to cut long before this process tipped today. That's how they roll.

 

Having seen the Advance process up close, a lot of familiar names will go... but a lot of names will also stay. That was the biggest thing I worried about. Would our staff be all new and consist of novices?

It didn't turn out that way. It's smaller, of course, but there are a lot of veteran names.

Per Romenesko: Five Gannett papers are in on this "newsroom of the future" project, including Asheville and Pensacola. I checked to see if Detroit would be involved, since they haven't been "butterflied" as of yet, but the Freep looks like they're out of this.

 

Shallow Stefanie strikes. To call her an empty suit is an insult to empty suits everywhere.
I am sure she believes she did a wonderful job with selling this, because of all the cutesy buzzwords she found she could use.

 

I think we have the five, then: Nashville, Asheville, Pensacola, Greenville (S.C.) and one of the Jersey papers.

 

Didn't USA Today do this with their sports section a couple years ago? A difficult (and unfair) process but hard to argue USAT's section isn't better than it was before the reorg. That being said, best of luck to all in Nashville.

 

USAT sports seems pretty weak to me now, so it must have really been awful.

 

The newsroom of the future that's been tried in numerous newsrooms across the country countless times over the past decade alone!