More CNHI

I interviewed with a Gannett hub last year. Job sounded intriguing, but my interest declined because it was straight copy editing/headline writing with little or no layout involved. I've multi-tasked enough over the years that I don't think doing multiple editions or different papers would be too much of a problem if it was well organized.

Riptide, a lot of places are doing away with in-person interviews these days simply because of the cost to bring someone in. If you're within driving distance, it makes it a lot easier. I've taken two jobs sight unseen. One worked out good, the other not so much. There's a risk on both sides, to be sure.

 

Yeah, I was OK with the phoner, but the guy was pressing too hard for me to sign up and move there within a week. I had other commitments and could get there within a month, but I got the feeling he had to have his roster filled by the end of the day. It was weird.

 

We were told at my shop about the eff(you!) days Friday, but no mention of design hubs.

Here's hoping that's not a corporate mandate, though I won't hold my breath.

 

Unfortunately, according to pretty good sources, hubs are the wave of the future for all of CNHI-land. Even more unfortunately, the cloud-based software is full of bugs and has caused MAJOR headaches and crashes at the Massachusetts hub -- pages not fully saving, file errors preventing web uploads, and more. Last I heard, plans for next hub in Indianapolis area were on hold pending resolution of software issues.
And there was no standardization of pages across products in the New England hub; still producing essentially the same products and number of pages with fewer paginators, since some people who had been doing pages were shifted to other roles when they turned the copy desks into page monkeys.

 

They won't approve a raise. They'll suspend you for asking. lol ..but wait, it might be true.

 

BUMP:

Looks like this may be as an official announcement of CNHI hubs as you're gonna get:

http://record-eagle.com/sunday/x1533629907/Design-of-the-Times-CNHI-chooses-Record-Eagle-as-regional-newspaper-design-hub

 

I'm all for adding new jobs, but this ... I don't know what to think.

 

Link doesn't work now. Maybe they laid off the computer servers, too.

 

Oh, bullshit. The primary purpose of the centers is to cut jobs. Do these clowns really believe what they say?

What goes into producing? Just pagination, or editing and headline writing and all that fun stuff as well? Seems like an awful lot.

 

What fucking arrogance.

And editing isn't editing anymore. It's "news production chores."

That used to be a description for the composing room. Not a newsroom.

 

Since the link is now dead, would someone please fill us (OK, me) in?

 

Basically it was a story on how the Traverse paper was going to be one of the CNHI pagination hubs. A whole bunch of happy talk about how there's going to be more jobs (!) and how the papers not in the hubs would be able to concentrate on reporting news and bullshit like that, with little about how many jobs across the company that were going to be cut.