Where (And When) Does It End?

I never understood why online would require fewer people in the newsroom. Sure you eliminate the press room and prepress. But you still have to have people to actually go out and report the news: whether its city, sports, business, whatever. And people to edit the stuff and post it to the web (copy editors).

If you cut newsrooms by 50 percent, who exactly does all that? do you just sit around and rewrite press releases all day? Someone please explain to me how this web-only operation requires fewer NEWSROOM bodies.

 

I'm going to start a band. There's more of a future in it.

Well, just as soon as I learn how to play an instrument.

 

Because you're on a "24/7" publishing cycle. In other words, you can do the work for three beats and just publish stories whenever you finish them.

 

It'll end when newspapers are privately and locally owned. And the owner is content with a 5 percent profit margin.

 

Your company's stock price and its ability to make a profit are not necessarily related.

 

I disagree. We have two (what we consider) major beats in town. Very often they play on the same night or same day. So tell me how cutting our two-man staff in half allows us to cover both teams/games. It's impossible.

The only jobs you cut are copy editors, prepress, pressman, mail room staff, etc.

And even then, if you're "delivering" the paper in electronic PDF format, someone has to lay it out.