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About newsroom staffing cuts at the Dallas Morning News. Because somebody needs to do it.
Why this blog exists
To offer a voice and a forum and a source of information during layoffs and now buyouts at the Dallas Morning News.
Here is what we lost in September '11:
Copy Editor I -- 3
Copy Editor II --5
Copy Editor III -- 5
Deputy Assistant Editor -- 5
Assistant News Editor -- 1
Office manager -- 1
Senior Editor -- 1
Design Editor -- 1
Photo Tech -- 1
Presentation Editor-- 1
Content Coordinator -- 2
Layout Editor -- 1
Bureau Chief -- 1
Special Writer -- 1
Reporter I -- 4
Reporter III -- 1
Reporter III-Business -- 1
Critic -- 1
Photographer III -- 2
Whenever this blog is active, the rules will not change: Personal attacks will not be posted or tolerated. Nobody's name will be listed as laid off without that person's permission. Anyone who wants to pass along information -- or plausible rumors -- please e-mail me at DMNcuts (at) gmail.com. Farewell messages ditto.
Here is what we lost in September '11:
Copy Editor I -- 3
Copy Editor II --5
Copy Editor III -- 5
Deputy Assistant Editor -- 5
Assistant News Editor -- 1
Office manager -- 1
Senior Editor -- 1
Design Editor -- 1
Photo Tech -- 1
Presentation Editor-- 1
Content Coordinator -- 2
Layout Editor -- 1
Bureau Chief -- 1
Special Writer -- 1
Reporter I -- 4
Reporter III -- 1
Reporter III-Business -- 1
Critic -- 1
Photographer III -- 2
Whenever this blog is active, the rules will not change: Personal attacks will not be posted or tolerated. Nobody's name will be listed as laid off without that person's permission. Anyone who wants to pass along information -- or plausible rumors -- please e-mail me at DMNcuts (at) gmail.com. Farewell messages ditto.
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- If anyone asks you if you run this blog, please answer "I am Spartacus" and ask why they want to know. For obvious reasons, anonymity is necessary. Email me at DMNcuts(AT)gmail.com
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Overheard chatter of 15 in advertising thus far...
ReplyDeleteWho is going to sell ads now? Japanese robots in an office in Delhi?
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Grim Reaper now? Very quiet at the moment in our area...
ReplyDeleteThe same ones who have always hung in there and sold ads before. We seem to be able to do more with less people at every turn. And we are not Japanese robots in Delhi, we are human beings with feelings - same as some others on here.
ReplyDeleteThis is classic a "for want of a shoe" cautionary tale for the top floor.
ReplyDeleteTo mix a metaphor, they're killing off so many worker bees that the hive won't function. Out sourcing = Cheaper worker Bees! Quality of work is not an issue when the bottom line is $$$.
Top floor hasn't a clue about the mechanics of the hive or how difficult it is to get nectar & pollen from heat stressed flowers, after all a drone is a drone; all that matters is that there is honey for the queens and their consorts - the nectar gathering and honey comb building just magically "happen". So they'll force the managing bees to work the remaining drones to exhaustion, complain when the outsourced bee's wax and honey are substandard (who and what can you get for well under 30K a year?) and deny any responsibility with destroying the hard won symbiotic relationship with the remaining flowers that feed it and by November, this hive will be facing its last winter.
could not have said it better myself!
ReplyDeleteI got the hives just reading that post. I know, I know. Mind my own bees wax.
ReplyDeleteHoney, you have no idea...
ReplyDeleteheh heh Moroney and Decherd are "queen bees" heh heh.
ReplyDeleteSweeeeeeeeet
ReplyDeleteAfter they lay off everyone that does the work, what will the paper look like then???
ReplyDeleteDo we know how many people were cut today?
ReplyDelete