Tampa Bay Times layoffs

Most are eliminating paywalls for coronavirus coverage.

As far as laying off sports writers, more will lose their jobs. We're not having sports anytime soon. Some will transition elsewhere, but some will just get cut.

 

I know some businesses are laying people off so the employees can collect unemployment during the hiatus. Wouldn't be surprised if those laid off end up collecting more in unemployment than those remaining at work. But then again - I imagine health care would be good to have.

 

Here’s an article with more details. Very sad.
Craig Pittman, beloved environmental reporter and author, laid off at the Tampa Bay Times

 

Tampa Bay Times lays off 11 journalists

Cuts planned before the outbreak, editor says.

 

Paul Tash's legacy is going to be that he killed 2 great newspapers. Not the way the story should end.

 

Jesus. A 10 percent paycut AND layoffs? Rough. Does anyone know who the 11 were?

 

Times will now only print on Wednesdays and Sundays.

 

I think we’re going to see a lot of newspaper corporations rolling out the 7/2 stuff they’ve been trying to sort out.

 

Wednesday and Sunday, not Saturday. Tash says it's temporary.
We'll see about temporary, but I can't imagine not having a Monday print edition once the NFL resumes.

 

Fixed, thanks.

 

I don't need to tell you once they get used to Wednesday/Sunday the only days for print, why go back? Some states now are talking stay at home orders until June 10. No need to go back to more than two days a week ever. Let's face it, until there is medicine or a pill that cures this there will be no stay at home orders lifted. That means no sports probably until warm weather 2021, let's say Memorial Day 2021 it resumes again. By then newspapers will be a thing of the past. There will be no print product in May 2021. Newspaper websites will employ very few people.