More antics at the AJC

Word today that the business section will go inside the A section starting relatively soon.
Also, more cuts are coming mainly from part-timers. Part-timers had their hours cut from 25 to 20 last week and are looking at a further reduction in the next few weeks. The elimination of those jobs could happen within the next two months.
On the sports side, the three agate clerks are on the chopping block. That would leave the staff of three daily sports copy editors even more swamped and over-worked.

 

And the nosedive of a once-great section continues...

 

They can't keep doing it with mirrors... cutting all the agate clerks is nonsense..

 

Wait, so three copy editors? Does that include designers?

 

Got a couple of very good friends who do the P/T gigs for the AJC. I got an opening, but I couldn't afford them. If I could ...

 

Please, somebody elaborate on this. The AJC has 3 copy editors in sports? That is not possible.

 

Newspapers need to realize that cutting your paper to nothing is only driving people further away. The Kate Moss thing isn't working. I happen to think anything less than a 24 page daily paper is barely worth the time or money to put out or read, let alone advertise in, and prompting further audience erosion. Cut the ad rates, maybe get more ads in the paper or just add news hole.
When you have a paper that tight, and stories that short, do advertisers have much of a chance to get a reader to glance at their ads?

 

Online only. It's a coming.
This is another paper that should just speed the process. Cutting agate clerks? My god.

 

I could believe that on a slow night there are three copy editors each shift, and a couple of designers and a copy chief. And hopefully a night editor. Gotta be six or seven people working each night at minimum. Right?

 

Being a 24 hour news machine has its price.

 

The irony is, I remember being told years and years ago by serious people working there that even when the AJC had a huge sports staff, the night operation was shockingly thin.

But this is getting ridiculous.