Ladies and Gents, the AJC reorg list

I worked at a place where a new editor came in and imposed the "newsroom without walls" in the mid-1990s and created all these little teams of 3-4 people. I was already getting beat on hard for too little money and it was the last straw for me at that place. We had garbage like the "body and soul" team (what the hell is that?). All it did was create a bunch of tiny fiefdoms, and these fiefdoms were headed by too many kings who all crowded into meetings, fought with each other, and nothing was ever done, and the product went to hell in a handbasket and was full of errors every day.

Fortunately the editor who did that was eventually "retired" twice within a few years and is now farming without walls and fences somewhere in the land of cotton, I hear. The newsroom without walls went back to the usual way of doing things and a few years later when I was through there and saw it, it looked a heck of a lot better.

 

What is an Interactivity editor?

 

There will be other changes at the AJC.

 

No shit, considering they just reorganized their entire newsroom

 

OK jackass, the comment was not meant to stir up something. I was responding to a question directed to me. You got something to offer like the crap you pulled, send it in a PM.
There are a lot of good folks at that place. They don't need to read a silly comment like the one you made. It's a very serious time at the AJC and many are understandably nervous about the future.

 

Name-calling boots? I thought you were above that.

 

I am.

 

OK, good. I could have sworn you just called me a jackass. My bad.

 

I believe that on Monday, June 11, the AJC flips the switch on all the big changes. Should be fun to observe .......

 

I predict the paper will still come out, and readers won't be able to tell the difference.

 

No doubt. The interesting part will be how long it takes before management concedes many of its ideas are absurd.