Wait -- going into last year, the *Hartford Courant* still had about *260* *newsroom* employees? That's amazing in itself.
====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau :: :: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Science without humanity. Knowledge without character. Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Worship without sacrifice. --Gandhi's seven deadly social sins :: :: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." --King :: :: "Any time you have the opportunity to accomplish something and you don't, you are wasting your time on this earth." --Roberto Clemente On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 14:00, Jim O'Connell <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
