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So, in other words, he's bolting.

 

That's missing the lead. The big news is that after months (years?) on the auction block, they've decided not to sell.

Digital First pulls plug on sale of newspaper chain; CEO departing - Denver Business Journal

 

The DFM abortions continue in Vermont.

None of the involved papers wrote about it. Took Vermont Digger.

Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington Banner, Manchester Journal lay off editorial staff - VTDigger

 

They must have been the worst Bolters. That's the only explanation as to why they are out.

But seriously, how shitty do you have to be to lay off a new hire? Hope he didn't move for that crummy company.

 

I wrote a little vignette on him when he came to the gallery. Really nice young guy. Been here 2 months.

And yes, he did.

 

According to the article the Manchester Journal no longer has any reporters. Which provides a good explanation about why they did not run anything on the layoffs.

 

Sounds to me like they want the writers to work all day and night, putting up little pieces of stories on twitter and other places. Good luck with overtime laws on this. News reporters are a lot different from sports reporters. They tend to put every hour worked on a time card. If you are working all day those news twitter-ers will be paid for it. And believe me if you are tweeting 9 to 5 then tweeting more at night, that is work. And news organizations simply won't pay for work. This plan sounds ridiculous to me. Sounds like you are working 24/7. And not being paid for it. And then you still have to write it up for the newspaper. The guy admitted the print product will remain as well. LOL.

 

I didn't know this guy but am not surprised at the reaction of people. There are a lot of evil people in this business if that's the right word. If these people want to be "ruthless" and treat people like crap they deserve this type of reaction when they pass away. It's heartless but not really. If a person's entire life is to step on the little guy to continue to get pay raises from upper management then it should not surprise anybody when the little people "spit on his grave" so to speak.