by Gary | Dec 22, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The Seattle Times is offering its employees the opportunity to be bought out of their positions in a move to reduce its workforce and ease strain on its budget. “I know the timing for this is not ideal. But I hope that those of you considering leaving the Times...
by Gary | Dec 22, 2015 | Uncategorized |
There’s big trouble in Postmedialand. Recently, the sad state of Canada’s largest media chain was the subject of some old-style gumshoe reporting by the National Observer’s Bruce Livesey. In his exposé of a beleaguered news outfit circling the drain, Livesey shows how...
by Gary | Dec 18, 2015 | Industry News |
Email newsletters are highly personal: Landing directly in our inboxes, bidding us good morning and good night, crafted to sound more like a knowledgeable friend than a news organization. Crain Communications is doubling down on email as a means of amplifying its...
by Gary | Dec 17, 2015 | Industry News |
Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate and Republican power broker who spent more than $100 million in the last election cycle, is behind the secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, according to the newspaper. Speculation has mounted for days that...
by Gary | Dec 16, 2015 | Industry News |
Staff at Vice Canada may follow the lead of their American counterparts and form a union. Organizers are trying to get enough staff to their union cards before the Christmas holidays so that they can trigger a certification vote. “We’ve been working on it for the last...
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