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Will be interesting to watch . . . http://www.theledger.com/article/20130504/COLUMNISTS0504/130509764/1410?Title=Subscription-Plan-Marks-Change

Wow, and that attached email says the deadline is today. I honestly don't know what I would do in that situation, especially since I'm not one who would want to move away and out of the competition zone. But if the alternative to not signing is sacrificing your job? Ugh.

Bump . . . Wondering if there is a follow-up to what Alan said about papers being evaluated again after the sale goes through. Has anyone else heard that? I haven't seen any info like that from friends who have been affected.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if the gutting started at the top at some of the papers, especially in Florida. The CEO of Halifax is also the publisher in Daytona. If I'm a publisher at any of the Florida papers, I'm nervous.

Know a lot of people at a lot of these papers. Everyone is pins and needles, and who knows what they mean when they say the plan is to retain "the vast majority of employees." I would imagine Halifax is taking on a lot of debt to pull this off, so they're going to be looking to cut expenses as...

So HUGE was a little much. Still, gives them a lot of influence for coverage especially in the central part of the state, and desk consolidation would almost seem inevitable. And that's in addition to any consolidation that's already happened in Ocala/Gainesville.

Anyone know anything about Halifax besides what papers it owns? This makes them a huge player in the Florida newspaper market at least, but I don't really know anything about their track record, ownership (public/private), etc.

And I thought my inside sources were good . . . Mizzou, there is some UF coverage in this from what I understand. People in Florida can't seem to get enough Gators stuff, and Lakeland is a big Gators hotbed. Not sure how much travel there would be to FSU and Miami, but I'm pretty sure USF and...

From the NYT Company careers site: The Ledger is seeking a F/T Sports Reporter covering local and statewide colleges. Responsibilities will include: * Covering games, writing features and maintaining a daily blog. * Maintaining contact with coaches, players and others at all local and...

I'm sure the position requires blogging and social media skills, right?

Just got out three months ago. I'm in my late 20's and had a really good career going. I didn't have plans to move up to bigger papers, but I had built a great brand in our market and was moving up within the paper/company. But the lifestyle demands were wearing on my wife and me, and once we...

Courtesy of Marc Topkin of the St. Pete Times: "It was big news in Chicago that the Cubs had worked a deal to acquire Matt Garza from the Rays. But the Chicago Sun-Times had a bigger surprise for its readers this morning with this back page photo - of former Ray Joaquin Benoit (who recently...

iHigh has been around for at least 10 years, so it's not anything new. And it's never caught on the way Maxpreps has or even Gannett's highschoolsports.net. There's a new one out there called C2Cschools that some states are using, too. So yeah, uphill battle here.

PDPreps is actually based off the site from Lakeland, Fla., which was a template for the NYT company: http://polkpreps.com/ The New York Times regional papers are going this direction.

Posted on the NYT company site: https://performancemanager4.successfactors.com/career?_s.crb=KfMlUGTUoJxjiGWD2gmj4AsOr74%253d The Ledger is seeking a F/T Preps Sports Editor to coordinate coverage of high school sports in Polk County, involving more than 20 schools. Responsibilities will...