Tuesday | www.modbee.com | William Dowd
Modesto offer: Buyouts for everyone!
The Modesto Bee offered buyouts Monday to all its full-time employees. The announcement comes four days after The McClatchy Company, which owns The Bee and 29 other daily newspapers, announced a companywide ...
Tuesday | www.elpasotimes.com | William Dowd
The editor of the El Paso Times has stepped down, officials at the newspaper announced Tuesday.
Tuesday | www.rrstar.com | William Dowd
Rockford dumps 13 more, shuts capital bureau
The Rockford Register Star today announced it laid off 13 full- or part-time employees after eliminating those positions.
Tuesday | www.buffalonews.com | William Dowd
Buffalo News offers buyouts to 107
The Buffalo News announced today it will offer voluntary resignation incentives to about 10 percent of its workforce in an attempt to reduce operating expenses.
www.latimes.com | William Dowd
Caltech alum Eddy Hartenstein, 57, has been a Times reader since his boyhood in Alhambra.
blogs.tampabay.com | William Dowd
200 take buyouts at St. Pete Times
In a memo to staffers this morning, St. Petersburg Times editor, CEO and hairman Paul Tash tells staffers that strong response to the company's early retirement incentives means "we can avoid the general ...
10 Ohio papers may see job cuts
Ten newspapers in central Ohio, including the Mansfield News Journal, Bucyrus Telegraph Forum and the Marion Star, all may see job cuts after its parent boss, The Gannett Company, announced it is eliminating ...
TV reporters get all rapped up
One awkwardly rapping local television reporter might be written off as a crackpot.
'A Careful Evisceration of Tim Russert'
Lewis Lapham 's forthcoming Harper's column on Tim Russert is not entirely unexpected, given the cranky literary liberal's public pronouncements on the late host of Meet The Press .
www.editorandpublisher.com | William Dowd
2 Hearst TX papers may join forces
NEW YORK The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News are in talks to share some feature-section production and design efforts, according to Chronicle Publisher Jack Sweeney -- who said the move could ...
www.statesman.com | William Dowd
The owner of the Austin American-Statesman has decided to put the daily newspaper and all affiliated operations up for sale with a goal of closing a deal by the first quarter of 2009.
Mag groups cuts salaries, jobs
Emmis Communications Corp. has cut an undisclosed number of positions from its magazine-publishing arm, the Indianapolis radio and publishing company said today.
www.businessweek.com | William Dowd
Here's a scene you don't see at many U.S. papers these days. The publisher settles into his office sofa, glances over his shoulder at the bustling metropolis below, and says casually: "We're doing good!" True, ...
www.miamiherald.com | William Dowd
McClatchy freezing pay for a year
McClatchy , the newspaper publisher whose holdings include The Miami Herald Media Co., is freezing pay across the company for a year starting Sept.
www.toledoblade.com | William Dowd
Cincy Enquirer seeks buyout volunteers
The Cincinnati Enquirer is asking for 50 volunteers companywide to take buyouts, part of nationwide cost cutting by the Gannett Co.
Gannett cutting 1,000 newspaper jobs
Gannett Co. is eliminating 1,000 jobs, including 600 layoffs, across its newspaper operations, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
Journalists killed in S. Ossetia
Two journalists were reported killed, at least eight were injured, and two have gone missing since fighting erupted between Georgian, Russian, and local forces in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
Israel hit on journalist death
The car of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana burning in Gaza after it was shot by an Israeli tank in April.
American journalist slain in Georgia
Winston Featherly-Bean, an Alaskan serving as editor of a small English-language newspaper in war-torn Georgia, was among four journalists shot by combatants in a northern province on Friday, according to his ...
www.newstimes.com | William Dowd
Hearst buys CT Post, 7 weeklies
Hearst Corp. has purchased the Connecticut Post and seven weekly newspapers from MediaNews Group Inc., according to an announcement by the two companies today.