DFM latest to drop the axe

[Sam Mills 51]

The idiots misrunning media outlets along the Front Range are at it again.

Fort Collins has a yoke on it to start with - Gannett. Loveland used to be presented at a level a couple of circulation levels higher than it was.

Loveland, Longmont and Boulder deserve better. Then again, the whole state of Colorado and the biz as a whole, too ...

 

[MileHigh]

Denver Post -- with what's left of it -- also slapped with three-week furloughs.

As a former co-worker told me today: "Worse than Uncle Dean."

 

[Matt Stephens]

All Colorado papers. Haven't heard if there are furloughs at the Denver Post, but I suspect there will be.

Post is having furloughs for all newsroom staff -- guild and management.

 

[Readallover]

Denver Post -- with what's left of it -- also slapped with three-week furloughs.

As a former co-worker told me today: "Worse than Uncle Dean."

Lean Dean created the template that New Gannett and DFM adopted and tweaked, leading us to the cliff's edge.

 

[MileHigh]

Lean Dean created the template that New Gannett and DFM adopted and tweaked, leading us to the cliff's edge.

No doubt about it. This is Lean Dean on steroids.

 

[LanceyHoward]

The idiots misrunning media outlets along the Front Range are at it again.

Fort Collins has a yoke on it to start with - Gannett. Loveland used to be presented at a level a couple of circulation levels higher than it was.

Loveland, Longmont and Boulder deserve better. Then again, the whole state of Colorado and the biz as a whole, too ...

I read the tweets above. A woman from the Loveland paper said that one of the reporters was permanently let go and the other two reporters would be furloughed. Does that mean that the Loveland paper, which serves a city of 78,000, only has two reporters left?

Though Canon City, which is the county seat of Fremont County (population 48,000) is going to one reporter, according to another tweet.

 

[MileHigh]

I read the tweets above. A woman from the Loveland paper said that one of the reporters was permanently let go and the other two reporters would be furloughed. Does that mean that the Loveland paper, which serves a city of 78,000, only has two reporters left?

Though Canon City, which is the county seat of Fremont County (population 48,000) is going to one reporter, according to another tweet.

Not that the website it up to date, but it would leave Loveland with three reporters.

I know of at least one sports layoff in Boulder. Don't know if there were more.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[Fredrick]

Can't blame upper management for not taking cuts They are the geniuses who have had this business thriving because of their awesome, pay websites. Oh wait ....

 

[Bob Smith]

I don't doubt HanSenSE's newsbolt and it's probably true ... but John Devine is still tweeting up a storm, like normal.

 

[HanSenSE]

I don't doubt HanSenSE's newsbolt and it's probably true ... but John Devine is still tweeting up a storm, like normal.

 

[ChrisLong]

Three cut from the Southern California News Group (OCR, LADN, Riverside, etc.) on Friday. One was a veteran whose title was Digital Director for Sports and NFL editor. Jim McCurdie revealed this himself on Facebook.

Allegedly, Sports absorbed the only layoffs of the newsroom staff, and those come after the entire Sports department had been furloughed for two weeks in April, two in May and two in June. The others laid off were ?????? from the copy desk and ???????, a promising young writer who was covering UCLA. Neither has revealed their status so their names won't appear here.