Gannett, Gatehouse talking merger

[Severian]

Ehhhh. haha. I'm in a kind of unique situation - I moved with my fiancee from New England to Houston, and she's the breadwinner. So, I'm mostly freelancing with a weekly out here, which I quite like. I've had one full-time journalism offer, but it came in so low, it didn't make sense for her to lose her meal chef and future childcare provider. I've mostly been looking for non-journalism work when it comes to fulltime, since the state of the industry is so bad that I really can't justify sinking another 15+ years into it. (I started getting paying jobs around 20, when I was in college; I'm 35 now.)

Have you considered The Houston Chronicle? They're hiring people.

 

[rtse11]

Three weeks ago, I completed two hour-plus interviews for a position outside of journalism. I was the second choice, supposedly. This would have been my last weekend in the business. Next week I will face a 1-in-10 chance of being summoned to the publisher's office.

 

[Tarheel316]

Three weeks ago, I completed two hour-plus interviews for a position outside of journalism. I was the second choice, supposedly. This would have been my last weekend in the business. Next week I will face a 1-in-10 chance of being summoned to the publisher's office.

How do you know it's next week? Just curious.

 

[rtse11]

Everything I'm hearing and reading

 

[Tarheel316]

Everything I'm hearing and reading

Sources?

 

[sgreenwell]

Sources?

At least for my former shop, you could tell because there were suddenly a lot more management people from the bigger paper suddenly meeting at our paper for a couple days, randomly. Doesn't take a lot of work to connect the dots.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Three weeks ago, I completed two hour-plus interviews for a position outside of journalism. I was the second choice, supposedly. This would have been my last weekend in the business. Next week I will face a 1-in-10 chance of being summoned to the publisher's office.

Good luck. I hope whatever happens happens for the best.

 

[playthrough]

IndyStar executive editor Ronnie Ramos is stepping down

Not sure if it's related to the merger or not.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

The EE in Westchester, N.Y., announced a couple of weeks back she was leaving to become the director of journalism at a radio station in the KC area, and the EE in Jackson, Miss., resigned about the same time, with no next move specified.

Feels like there is an absolute bloodbath coming.

 

[JBHawkEye]

Yeah, if the upper management in the newsrooms are leaving, they know what's coming. And they probably knew they had a good chance of being on the list.

 

[ChadFelter]

The EE in Westchester, N.Y., announced a couple of weeks back she was leaving to become the director of journalism at a radio station in the KC area, and the EE in Jackson, Miss., resigned about the same time, with no next move specified.

Feels like there is an absolute bloodbath coming.

What are the names of those EEs?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Traci Bauer and Sam Hall.