Veteran columnist — and a helluva fine writer — Susan Campbell confirms she has volunteered to take the company’s buy-out offer, assuming the corporate overlords approve it. Let’s save the teeth-gnashing and bemoaning and/or commiserating until the shoe has finally dropped, but certainly when she leaves, a huge part of the Courant’s personality leaves with [...]
Some things never change. Bonuses at the top; layoffs and buyouts at the bottom. Anyway, $45 million wouldn’t have saved that many jobs anyway. Probably no more than a thousand for only a year — but those would have been crappy $45,000-a-year jobs.
Some new circulation numbers are making the rounds, and The Courant’s numbers are among them. Sunday circulation for March appears to be down about 3.2 percent — that’s a loss of 6,363 copies out of 197,407 a year earlier. Saturday circulation is up 1.5 percent to 138,195; but most other days are down slightly. Average [...]
One of our fellow alumni (who prefers to remain anonymous because he is looking for a journalism job that pays a decent wage) has done a little homework on Journatic, the outfit that is taking over local news production from the Chicago Tribune staff writers, who are being laid off. Here’s part of what he [...]
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