Mike Reed Sets Goals for New Gannett

[Woody Long]

Oh please, oh please, let it be my former boss who finally gets hers...

Just heard from sources that I should stop off and buy a bottle of Dom on the way home.

 

[Fdufta]

Something I can't shake about the Gannett lunch hour protest is that they actually have to protest to get a lunch hour. To whomever may be affected by these, the grass is greener on the other side, I promise you.

 

[FileNotFound]

Mike Reed's goal for Gannett: Push Chapter 11 into 2023.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

THIS.

I'm so tired of the corporate bullshirt. For years I was inundated with "synergies". Now, it's the "headwinds" we are facing.
Why can't anyone just tell me, "we're losing our ass and, instead of cutting into Mike Reed's $900,000 salary, or the CFO's $500,000 salary, or cutting any of the 100s of VPs, we're slicing the local reporters and editors, because frankly your health insurance costs too damn much. And, truthfully, we really don't value you at all despite it being in every email we send."

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

I'm so tired of the corporate bullshirt. For years I was inundated with "synergies". Now, it's the "headwinds" we are facing.
Why can't anyone just tell me, "we're losing our ass and, instead of cutting into Mike Reed's $900,000 salary, or the CFO's $500,000 salary, or cutting any of the 100s of VPs, we're slicing the local reporters and editors, because frankly your health insurance costs too damn much. And, truthfully, we really don't value you at all despite it being in every email we send."

And tell the boards of directors (this applies to EVERY newpaper chain) to quit handing out five-, six- and seven-figure bonuses to those corporate asshats ...

 

[JBHawkEye]

My former newsroom had seven full-time and part-time in the newsroom. Four got cut today.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Some of the small ones will about have no one left if they get cut.

Of course not. But that didn't stop my last shop, which has basically no one left.

As horrible as Gannett, only smaller.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

And tell the boards of directors (this applies to EVERY newpaper chain) to quit handing out five-, six- and seven-figure bonuses to those corporate asshats ...

... b-b-b-but that spoils all their fun.

Did you hear about the place that laid off numerous people, then gave a departing Vice President a six-figure bonus as a departing gift ... as the HR person lied that "they would never do something like that"?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I'm so tired of the corporate bullshirt. For years I was inundated with "synergies". Now, it's the "headwinds" we are facing.
Why can't anyone just tell me, "we're losing our ass and, instead of cutting into Mike Reed's $900,000 salary, or the CFO's $500,000 salary, or cutting any of the 100s of VPs, we're slicing the local reporters and editors, because frankly your health insurance costs too damn much. And, truthfully, we really don't value you at all despite it being in every email we send."

Q: How do you know Gannett is lying?
A: They're still creating buzzwords to cover their horrendous acts as they lie about everything else.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Thank goodness at least one person I know from Gannett-world is safe. So is her newsroom.

Unfortunately, this is an exception, not the rule.

 

[Tarheel316]

My former newsroom had seven full-time and part-time in the newsroom. Four got cut today.

Ouch. My former shop at 16 people in the newsroom when I arrived in 2006. Today there are two.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]