Daily Archives: February 5, 2009

Brace Yourselves For More Layoffs

The word is filtering back into the Courant newsroom that more layoffs are on the way. The bankruptcy court’s recent approval of smaller severance benefits wouldn’t mean much if it didn’t apply to anyone, would it? So now everyone’s on more pins and needles than they were before… as if that’s possible. For what it’s [...]

Made In Chicago

04-sweet-home-chicago The average unobservant Courant reader may not notice that today’s wire news section — now called BeyondCT — was made entirely in Chicago. That’s not as bad as India, perhaps. After all, like a pint, the wire news is wire news the world around. Does it matter if the stories were selected by someone who [...]

Yeouch. Severance Funds Cut In Half

I’m sure this news has spread through the ranks like wild fire.  Tribune’s severance benefits going forward are cut in half. Here’s E&P’s take. It’s the sort of news that reaffirms the decision many of us made to bail out in July. It also makes me fear for my fellow journalists who are still faithfully [...]

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