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Hipsters who can post to Facebook and can Tweet.

 

Dude, I say this after watching you attach yourself at softball to the hip of the SE of the paper that fired you, and watching you scurry around this thread: STFU. Seriously. Stop posting.

 

From Poynter: According to NOLA.com: 202 employees, or 32 percent of the company has been cut. The company said that 84 of 169 employees in the newsroom will lose their jobs, and 67 of the 464 positions in the new company have not been filled yet. (NOLA.com originally reported that 84 of 235 in the combined print and online newsroom were being laid off.)

 

There's a huge market for news. There is no longer any reasonable way to make money serving that market, as far as can be told. No form of advertising generates enough money to support it, and people won't pay what it costs to produce it. It appears the newspapers in Alabama and New Orleans have decided they will try the "content farm" business plan. They will fail. I honestly believe the model to come is straight-up contracting out of content to advertisers and institutions of power in the community. Let 'em write their own coverage. And yes, that will extend to sports. No reason the SID can't cover State for us.

 

Sounds like a bloodbath. God speed, everyone.

 

Guy at a big ad agency here in town just launched @ALNewsJobs as a Twitter clearinghouse to try and help those fired. And I hope that those outside the Advance/Newhouse realm will use the proper term. This isn't a layoff.

 

God bless you for retaining the ability to act shocked by any of this.

But based on slappy's post, it's probable you're like the young guy who gets a columnist position, then expresses unconvincing shock when the veteran columnist gets laid off a week later.

That's probably on the table for the future.

Must assume management has at least discussed the Armageddon possibility.

 

This will not end well. How can you make a product worse and expect people to buy into it? It didn't work for automakers in Detroit and it definitely won't work in the South.

 

In some cases salaries remain the same, I am told.

 

one of the people I know who retained their position at the alabama properties did not have their salary cut.
a couple of my fiends have been offered jobs but will have to move if they want them.

 

Most people are your fiends...

 

If Facebook had a Fiends list, I'd consider signing up.