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Is this thread in reaction the the March 7 phone phiring day at the Merc?

 

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Actually the German idiom is "Es geht nicht." But you are correct.

 

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David Butler wouldn't recognize journalism if he were crushed by an overturned semi delivering the New York Times.
Let me be clear. He is nothing but a Dean Singleton hatchet man. And has been for the better part of two decades.

 

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Butler was the L.A. Daily News exec who pushed the Dodgers/Angels sharing idea on the Orange County Register and OCR management swallowed it. Butler was gone to San Jose before it was implemented, but it was implemented nonetheless.

 

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A bunch of top editors at the Merc are clearing out or already have done so. We're talking several AMEs/department heads. Management is going after the big salaries.

 

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then you'd be working in radio.

 

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Just acceptin' of the shitty new reality out there. That, and I like my job.

 

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From my pipeline:

--Five top managers took buyouts by Friday's deadline, including Business editor Rebecca Salner. Others reportedly are Steve Wright (Editorial pages), Matt Mansfield (photo/graphics and "Rethinking" project honcho), Pam Moreland (Features), and Alvie Lindsay (Sacto buro). I'm guessing we're losing close to a century's worth of experience with those five departures alone.

--Two people left amid the run-up to the layoffs (Tech columnist Dean Takahashi and April Lynch, who was to transfer to Biz when she returned from maternity leave).

--And word is that 19 others will be laid off from the newsroom. A handful of people already have apparently learned their fate -- reportedly including four people in Biz, Features design and the copy desk -- but I'll hold off sharing names until it's official.

 

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They lost the person in charge of the "rethinking" project? That's rich.

Sounds like a massacre for the Biz desk.

 

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At its peak, didn't the biz staff there number about 70?

 

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At one point, the Biz copy desk was about 10 (including designers). Plus, I'd estimate, six assigning editors including the top editors. And, say, 25-30 writers at the peak. More like in the high 40s I would say. But that would have made it the biggest outside of NYT and maybe LAT and of course the Journal.