More from Lean Dean

Word on the street is more cuts are coming to the Daily News. 20 percent of editorial and I am starting to freak out. There can't be more than 100 of us left.

 

After what came out of the Bay Area today and the "consolidation" package with the Orange County Register that already is underway, this, too, is not a surprise.

 

How has Kevin Modesti fared as sports editor?

 

I believe he oversees major coverage for all of LANG, not just the Daily News.

 

Modesti does oversee the sports sections for all of LANG and seems to be handling it pretty well -- universal desks and correspondents and all.
I saw that the Bay Area News Group has to have 200 of its employees accept buyouts to avoid layoffs. That would be around the 20 percent we're hearing at the Daily News. Yikes!

 

Modesti seems like a good guy; must be a painful job, though.

 

When Singleton tried to buy the Register a few years back and was rejected -- some Hoiles family members wanted to keep the paper and some wanted to sell, and those that wanted to keep got private equity firms to give them the money to buy out those that wanted to sell -- Singleton warned that was a terrible deal and he would eventually buy the Register on terms far less favorable than what he was offering at the time.

Sounds about right.

 

I'll say it again... an OCR under Singleton would be much worse than what's there now. God, I hope that doesn't happen.

 

More on Register cuts ... er, repositioning:

http://www.ocregister.com/news/register-horne-local-1983563-news-newspaper

 

"Other changes on the horizon include:

A narrower paper, with the width of each page shrinking by 1 inch in late summer or fall."

Sheesh, by page 10 or page 11, that's going to be one narrow read.

 

It's a pretty narrow political read now.