The Allentown Morning Call cited declining revenue as the reason behind another wave of layoffs.
The Morning Call reports on its Web site this afternoon that of the 70 positions to be cut, 50 people will be laid off, while the remaining positions are vacant and will not be filled.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Why newspapers are in trouble, and what's at stake
Rick Holmes writes:
Maybe you went looking for it on this newspaper's Web site. Maybe it was linked from some other site - from Google or Yahoo or some blog you read. Maybe a friend e-mailed it to you.
However you got here, thanks for reading. But how you got here matters. More to the point, whether you paid for it matters. Newspapers are businesses, and no business can keep losing money and survive.
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Maybe you went looking for it on this newspaper's Web site. Maybe it was linked from some other site - from Google or Yahoo or some blog you read. Maybe a friend e-mailed it to you.
However you got here, thanks for reading. But how you got here matters. More to the point, whether you paid for it matters. Newspapers are businesses, and no business can keep losing money and survive.
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Family-owned Washington newspaper seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
The Columbian Publishing Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday in a move to resolve credit issues with Bank of America, primary lender on its multimillion dollar downtown building project completed last year.
Scott Campbell, publisher of the independent daily newspaper serving Clark County and Southwest Washington, said operations will continue unaffected by the filing and that his company will emerge from the situation in a few months "with renewed vigor and excitement for the future."
The Vancouver-based three-generation family-owned publishing company with 259 employees operates The Columbian newspaper, established in 1890 and the Web site www.columbian.com.
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Scott Campbell, publisher of the independent daily newspaper serving Clark County and Southwest Washington, said operations will continue unaffected by the filing and that his company will emerge from the situation in a few months "with renewed vigor and excitement for the future."
The Vancouver-based three-generation family-owned publishing company with 259 employees operates The Columbian newspaper, established in 1890 and the Web site www.columbian.com.
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Jack the Ripper 'was invented to win newspaper war'
Jack the Ripper was a forgery invented by journalists to link a series of unrelated murders and sell newspapers, according to a new book.
The unsolved murders of five prostitutes in London's East End in 1888 have spawned innumerable theories over the identity of the 'real' Jack the Ripper - with candidates including artist Walter Sickert, Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and even Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence.
But now historian Dr Andrew Cook claims to have blown all these theories out of the water by dismissing the notion of a brutal, murderous spree by one 'serial killer' altogether.
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The unsolved murders of five prostitutes in London's East End in 1888 have spawned innumerable theories over the identity of the 'real' Jack the Ripper - with candidates including artist Walter Sickert, Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and even Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence.
But now historian Dr Andrew Cook claims to have blown all these theories out of the water by dismissing the notion of a brutal, murderous spree by one 'serial killer' altogether.
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News-Press To Let 15 Go
In a press release posted on the internet Friday morning, Ampersand Publishing, the parent company of the Santa Barbara News-Press announced the layoff of 15 News-Press employees.
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'Chicago Trib,' 'LAT': Editorial Clashes With Biz Side
When Sam Zell led a buyout of the Tribune Co. in April 2007, he promised that management would respect the integrity of the editorial operations, but newsroom staffers evinced skepticism. Two years, hundreds of layoffs, and one bankruptcy later, newsrooms at the company's biggest papers are in a state of ferment about breaches of the boundary between editorial and advertising operations.
Indeed, as Zell and his minions look increasingly like an unwanted foreign regime, a bona fide newsroom uprising may be in the offing.
In the latest controversy, 55 reporters and editors at the flagship Chicago Tribune signed an email to editor Gerould Kern and managing editor Jane Hirt accusing the paper's marketing department of surveying subscribers about unfinished stories to gauge their reaction -- laying the groundwork for deciding which articles get published based on market sentiment.
According to the Associate Press, which first reported the email, the editorial staffers still don't know whether articles were changed or canceled because of responses to these surveys.
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Indeed, as Zell and his minions look increasingly like an unwanted foreign regime, a bona fide newsroom uprising may be in the offing.
In the latest controversy, 55 reporters and editors at the flagship Chicago Tribune signed an email to editor Gerould Kern and managing editor Jane Hirt accusing the paper's marketing department of surveying subscribers about unfinished stories to gauge their reaction -- laying the groundwork for deciding which articles get published based on market sentiment.
According to the Associate Press, which first reported the email, the editorial staffers still don't know whether articles were changed or canceled because of responses to these surveys.
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CU pulls plug on faculty newspaper
University of Colorado administrators today killed the Silver & Gold Record, the newspaper for faculty and staff, in a budget-cutting move.
The paper, which was founded in 1970, will cease publication in the coming weeks.
The move will save almost $600,000 a year and eliminate 6-1/2 full-time jobs, said Ken McConnellogue, associate vice president for university relations.
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The paper, which was founded in 1970, will cease publication in the coming weeks.
The move will save almost $600,000 a year and eliminate 6-1/2 full-time jobs, said Ken McConnellogue, associate vice president for university relations.
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Scottish Newspaper Ceases Publication
One of two newspapers serving the Isle of Arran yesterday announced it is to cease publication, "for the foreseeable future".
The Arran Voice was only set up two years ago - by well-known children's author and one of the creators of the children's TV series, Trumpton: Alison Prince - in competition to the established Arran Banner.
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The Arran Voice was only set up two years ago - by well-known children's author and one of the creators of the children's TV series, Trumpton: Alison Prince - in competition to the established Arran Banner.
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Plain Dealer workers facing more demands and layoffs
Unionized Plain Dealer workers have been told, they must make $5 million in concessions by June 1 or face the layoff of more than 60 members.
Newspaper Guild spokesman Harlan Spector says that would mean the loss of 22 more newsroom jobs.
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Newspaper Guild spokesman Harlan Spector says that would mean the loss of 22 more newsroom jobs.
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Firings, reorganization gut union presence in Sun newsroom
Baltimore Sun reorganization message sent to staff shows calculated planning before purge, writes David Ettlin:
Depression settled in Thursday across the Baltimore Sun newsroom along with the dust of this week’s nearly 24-hour-long personnel massacre in which nearly a third of the staff was shown the door.
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Depression settled in Thursday across the Baltimore Sun newsroom along with the dust of this week’s nearly 24-hour-long personnel massacre in which nearly a third of the staff was shown the door.
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Union seeks more talks on Globe
The Boston Globe's largest union last night called on The New York Times Co. to extend today's deadline for reaching agreement on millions of dollars in concessions after revealing that an accounting mistake by management has suddenly removed $4.5 million in possible givebacks from the table.
The error, which leaders of the Boston Newspaper Guild said was revealed to them late Wednesday night, complicates already difficult negotiations aimed at saving the Globe, which is projected to lose some $85 million this year.
The paper's owner, The New York Times Co. has set today as the deadline for reaching agreement on $20 million in concessions from the paper's unions, including $10 million from the Guild, which represents more than 600 editorial, advertising, and business office workers.
The Times Co. has threatened to shutter the Globe unless it gains the union concessions.
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The error, which leaders of the Boston Newspaper Guild said was revealed to them late Wednesday night, complicates already difficult negotiations aimed at saving the Globe, which is projected to lose some $85 million this year.
The paper's owner, The New York Times Co. has set today as the deadline for reaching agreement on $20 million in concessions from the paper's unions, including $10 million from the Guild, which represents more than 600 editorial, advertising, and business office workers.
The Times Co. has threatened to shutter the Globe unless it gains the union concessions.
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As deadline looms, will NY Times Co shut The Globe?
Advertisements for The Boston Globe boast that a single news story can "take you away." But after Friday, the newspaper itself may be taken away and shut down after 137 years of publication.
The New York Times Co, which bought the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, threatened at the start of April to shut the money-losing, award-winning broadsheet unless the paper's 13 unions agree by Friday to $20 million in concessions.
As the deadline approaches, the future of one of America's most acclaimed regional newspapers looks unclear, illustrating deepening problems for an industry that has few answers for an accelerating, long-term shift of advertising to the Internet.
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The New York Times Co, which bought the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, threatened at the start of April to shut the money-losing, award-winning broadsheet unless the paper's 13 unions agree by Friday to $20 million in concessions.
As the deadline approaches, the future of one of America's most acclaimed regional newspapers looks unclear, illustrating deepening problems for an industry that has few answers for an accelerating, long-term shift of advertising to the Internet.
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