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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.
About Me
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- Dallas, TX, United States
- 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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High points from the meeting with George:
ReplyDeleteThe pay cuts saved 130 jobs in Belo newsrooms.
Al Dia is now making money. Quick is almost breaking even.
Local news will go from 8 to 21 community reporters in the reorg.
Marketing will truthfully tell readers what we’re doing new and good.
The DMN is still a moneymaker, as are most newspapers. Corporations saddled with debt, not so much.
Questions concerned: e-mail migration to Blackberries — not exactly seamless. Whether Projects reporters should be returned to the weekend rotation. How to balance a need for greater collaboration with the fear of “bigfooting.”
About the weekend roation, the discussion came up because metro reporters are working a weekend shift less than once every two months.
ReplyDeleteThey cut local reporters, telling us our jobs are no longer needed, then expand local coverage by moving editors into those slots? Yeah. Nothing against any editors, i don't want anyone, period to lose their jobs, but that's absurd. More Belo B.S.
ReplyDeletePolitics, as always, played a larger role in the layoffs than anyone is willing to admit. Just toss those performance evaluations out and keep the high paid folks employed.
ReplyDeleteSpecialty beats -- social services, public health, religion -- are gone as separate assignments. Will remain only as 'mini-beats' within other assignments.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have news out of other departments?
ReplyDeleteThe latest "reinvention"? Investigative journalism, per the half-page house ad in Sunday "Points." So, was DMN not doing that before? That's almost what the ad implied.
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