So is McClatchy about to drop the hammer?

Assholes. Fucking assholes.

 

We can cut all the copy editors! They don't produce anything, I've never seen a byline!

 

Mariners?

Bellingham is going to a universal desk...getting rid of two desk positions, a reporter and a clerk. Not sure if any are sports.

In Olympia, sports is safe. Don't remember numbers on the news-side.

I'm still sick about it and I haven't even stepped foot in my office today. Something about not effing with karma...

 

I'm young and still feel like I'd like to stick around in this business and make things better because I love what journalism can do when done right. But reading all of this the past few weeks has me seriously thinking about getting out while I can on my own terms. All those at McClatchy have my prayers that they come out of this better than they were before. This is just such an awful time to be a journalist.

 

If you want to stay in this business the best thing to do is acquire as many skills as possible. It has come to that.

 

If you count "figuring out how to get people to pay for the news" as a skill then you are correct.

 

Yeah, let's cut the copy editors who just happen to fix all those mistakes the writers make in the first place. If I were a designer -- and I have been -- I would be worried. Print editions are fading quickly it seems.

 

Let's face it, given the realities of our industry, the attitude upper management has revealed in its treatment of its journalists in these difficult times and the tilted supply (of available journalists) vs. demand (vanishing jobs), does any newspaper have any incentive to treat its employees well EVER again?

In other words, if you "love journalism," you are resigning yourself to working for stiffs (if not your immediate supervisor, then someone above that person) and being treated shabbily for the rest of your career. Now, that's a nice healthy career option, don't ya think?

 

Can people still collect unemployment when they receive a buyout or do you forfeit that right? If the right is forfeited and you've only been there a year or two, you might as well collect unemployment. It would be more money.

 

And not limited to the media industry. CEOs across the board are raking it in while investors and employees take it up the you-know-where.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/BIZ/806160378/1148/AUTO01

 

Anyone hear what the "new duties" will be for the former managing editors in Miami?