Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville to publish three days a week

Legal notices are about all that are keeping some papers in business anymore. Especially if they are in a county seat.

 

First week printing off-site for Huntsville hits a little hiccup.

https://www.facebook.com/huntsvilletimes/posts/242063849247157

 

Probably the first of many.

 

LOL. You think?

 

Some of the stories emerging about the new management and their decisions are pretty screwed up.

No surprise they had a printing problem.

 

Maybe someone can explain this.

We've talked for 17 pages now about the changes going on here. But I'm seeing at least a dozen postings for various openings, many in sports, in both Birmingham and Huntsville. So what's up?

Did they just decide to clean house, dump everyone and start with a clean slate? Or are they just gathering resumes for future openings? Or something else?

 

Hire people forests money. Companies don't want to cut pay and keep disgruntled employees around.

 

So they basically just cleaned house? If that's the case, I guess I can't really blame them. Plenty of companies do that.

I don't know what the situation is, I just saw a bunch of ads and was curious.

 

Those who accepted severance will be on board through september. then it transitions to the new model.
as I understand it, there basically will be one fulltime sports guy in huntsville. It will be a new hire. I'm sure mark mccarter will continue to do sports/news. I'm guessing the new guy will line up stringers for coverage and those people will file to the web or call in results to the brand spanking new 19-person call center in Birmingham.
Not sure where small colleges fit into the grand scheme of things. A school like Alabama-Huntsville, which went to the D-II Elite Eight men's basketball tournament, probably will get lost in the shuffle. But since it drives little traffic to the web, i'm pretty sure nobody in the alabama media family or whatever they are calling it now, will care.

 

I'm told there is a pay structure that involves a base and bonuses or incentives based on the number of web hits for stories.

Boring stories that don't generate interest? No soup for you.

Man rapes cow, leads police on chase tossing drugs from truck window? It's bonus time, baby!

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I read it has to do with the way they restructured. They're forming new companies, not just retooling. So everyone at the old place was essentially fired or laid off, and hired by the new company if they were staying on past September.
So, if that was the case, there's still some jobs that need to be filled with the new company. Some were filled by people who were staying on. Some weren't, and those are the ones we're seeing advertised.

 

Yes, all true.