layoffs in Greensboro

No breakdown by department, but sports already cut to the bone....

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/NEWSREC0101/70607025

 

My bad. Should have started this on the "journalism topics only" board.

 

You can probably PM Moddy or Gutter and have them move it for you.

And I love the excuses from the publisher. Never blame the company's decision to cut the newsroom to the bone. It's always the Internet's fault.

 

(and after learning I won't get my annual bonus if the profit margin dips below 20 percent, Saul added).

 

Wow! This is not a good sign at all.

Landmark's not your typical cut-throat, bottom-line newspaper chain.

This is very surprising ... and disheartening ... and could be a terrible sign for the future. I have always been optimistic about the future of newspapers as we know them, but this is bad with a capital B.

 

I've been employed with LCNI for more than 7 years.

Never seen something like this.

Although according to the story, Greensboro had more than 400 employees. It's not four times the size of my paper in terms of circulation, but it had four times as many employees.

Granted this is bad, but it seems like it had room to cut (or my paper is bare bones and we never layoff people or go through hiring freezes. Every newsroom position gets filled).

 

I second that!

 

From what I understand, plans are still a go to name a new SE in Norfolk. But this picture is getting very ugly not just for Landmark but for many other chains.
From what I can see, the smaller single-family owned operations - and there aren't that many any longer - seem to be fairing much better.

 

Apparently these layoffs were done according to seniority. The people laid off were the people who had been there the shortest time.

 

That really sucks for all involved in Greensboro...the SE's a great guy and the staff, which, as someone stated above, was already down to the bone, is also great. Sorry to hear.

 

17 from the newsroom let go. 11 full-time, 6 part-timers.

Once-proud sports dept. down to 5 writers, I believe, including one columnist.

Pity for a great college hoops market.