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The beleaguered Washington Times announced "significant" reductions to its staff of 370 today.
In response to "marketplace realities", "the company is aggressively working to achieve efficiencies of scale that must include significant staff reduction of its 370 personnel," said Publisher Jonathan Slevin.
Late Update: Now we know. The layoffs announced equal 40% of the staff of the paper. Brutal.
They are not producing anything the public is willing to buy. Sad but a cyclical part of business. There are some papers that are surviving via their internet presence because people want to read what is written on their pages.
How long until the taxpayer funded "bail-out" for the printed press begins?
Lots of cities have become one newspaper towns. That doesn't mean that the WaPo is liked. Look at the Chicago Trib, which has larger circ numbers -- it's despised by "narrow-minded unintelligent left-wingers" but it's still the top circ paper in the city.
Yes, but the Washington Times has been around for a long time. If the Washington Post was truly despised and the Times was a good alternative, the Times' circulation numbers would have been far higher.
And now The Washington Post is laying off staff, sources told me on Friday, and a spokeswoman confirmed.
The Post has cut an unknown number of washingtonpost.com workers, the website folks who until now have worked separately at the dot-com headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, across the river from the Post’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. One source told me up to 10 are going. That’s not as big a number as other places you’ve read about lately, but it’s still a painful cut. (Disclosure: I worked for The Washington Post Co. from 1998 to 2005)
Sources shared several names with me, but until those people confirm that they were laid off, I don’t want to publish them. What I can say is that there were several journalists and marketing people among the casualties. They are getting severance packages, but they are accompanied by non-disclosure agreements which prevent them from discussing their firings. Apparently, some of my sources said, they will be out of work by Dec. 31. (reuters blog)
i feel sorry for all americans losing their jobs.
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