McClatchy layoffs?

I made a typo. GateLee is not a company. I truncated and combined Gatehouse and Lee so there are five companies. Gatehouse and saw revenues decline 5.4%. Gannett was the laggard and saw revenues decline 10%. Lee, McClatchy and Tronc between 5.4% and 10.2%.

They are huge declines and that is why more people will be getting axed.

 

Which will be a shame. Cox's central desk is top-notch, at least in sports.

 

Go ahead ... let the hate flow through you ...

Got an email from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the other day, telling me my monthly subscription price would increase by about $15 (to around $80).

I've been a subscriber almost from the day I moved here. But that paper is a shell of a shell of its former self, and $80 a month for it is a joke.

I knew what would happen when I called ... they'd offer me a deal and I'd probably take it. And so it went.

Now I'm paying about $10 less than I was before. Hated to do it, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

 

If you take a copy of FWST today and hold it up to a weekday paper from, say, 1998, it looks like a little Fisher-Price toy newspaper.

 

One of the depressing things watching The Post - the wide-web papers.

 

The news desk was equally top-notch, if not better.

 

One of the things that has really changed is how little advertising Fry's (big discount electronics retailer) does in the S-T these days. Time was, there was ALWAYS a full-page ad on the back of the sports section, then a multi-page insert on Fridays. I think they do a full-pager on Fridays and Sundays now.

 

Starting in less than two weeks, it'll all be one big, unhappy family.

 

Two sports layoffs at the Sun Herald in January 2018, the subject of my latest blog post.
The end of Sun Herald sports as we know it - Pictures of Tilly

 

Interesting reading. I did not know Al Jones was no longer on the staff.

 

Thanks. It's been a few years since Al was there.

 

$80 a month!?!?! As in nearly $1,000 a year to subscribe to the local paper?

Wow, man. Florida's largest newspaper charges roughly $60 a year for daily delivery in some parts of its circulation area.