Courant Cutting About 100 Jobs The Hartford Courant 12:02 PM EST, February 25, 2009 The Hartford Courant is eliminating about 100 jobs this week, mostly by layoffs, as the longtime slide in advertising revenues gains speed in 2009.
The cuts include about 30 employees in news, bringing the news staff to 135 -- just over half the number The Courant had at the start of 2008. -----Original Message----- >From: Joseph Nebus <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 24, 2009 11:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: (media deathwatch) Blues at the Green* > > > >On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Richard de Give wrote: > >> Troubled San Francisco paper in danger of closing >> By MICHAEL LIEDTKE >> AP Business Writer > >> “Our current situation dictates that we accomplish these cost >> savings quickly,” Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega wrote in a memo to >> the staff. “Business as usual is no longer an option.” > > ``We're not positive just how to save the newspaper, but we're going >to try cutting the comics, locally-written features, and expensive >investigative journalism so as to save money until readers flock back >to us.'' > > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
