Fishwrap of Record slashes jobs

Tough times at the NYTimes:
October 19, 2009 , 2:49 pm
Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs
By Richard Perez-PenaThe New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs – about 8 percent of the total – by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday.
The program mirrors one carried out in the spring of 2008, when the paper erased 100 positions in its newsroom, though other jobs were created, so the net reduction was smaller. That round of cuts included some layoffs of journalists – about 15 to 20, though The Times would not disclose the actual figure – which was the first time in memory that had happened.
The paper has made much deeper reductions in other, non-newsroom departments, where layoffs have occurred several times. But the advertising drop that has pummeled the industry has forced cuts in the news operation, as well. The newsroom already has lowered its budgets for free-lancers and trimmed other expenses, and employees took a 5 percent pay cut for most of this year.
Nearly all metropolitan papers have been cutting their news operations for years, and some have fewer than half as many people in their newsrooms as they did in 2000.
The Times’ news department peaked at more than 1,330 employees before the last round of cuts. The current headcount is about 1,250; no other American newspaper has more than about 750.
Wonder if the NYT’s “opinion media monitor” position is on the chopping block, too?
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Hey, MM.
Seen this?
Looks like they gonna be putting out more ‘HOT’ stories like todays chamber of commerce lie.
How long till they just give it all up?
I smell another taxpayer bailout!
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not even! I would not ruin a wild caught salmon in that rag.
The New York Times can afford to slash those 100 jobs – you see, when you get all your news direct from the Obama administration, you can cut out the middle man…
The New York Times can afford to slash those 100 jobs – you see, when you get all your
newspropaganda direct from the Obama administration, you can cut out the middle man…There. Fixed it.
AMF
A little of the People’s Karaoke for everyone. It’s called The Times We Ain’t a-Changing. Sung to the Dylan tune The Times They Are a-Changing.
There’s even a midi file to sing along to.
How are they going to stay ahead on stories like Van Jones and ACORN with fewer people?
Sure, but how many jobs did they save?
Rush Limbaugh should form a company called the Democratic People’s Progressive Leftie News Company, Inc. and buy the paper.
ain’t that a shame…..
the only sad part of the story is that they aren’t laying off more people or closing completely, but that day will come.
pass the popcorn please!
Later, the paper retracted after discovering it had no newsroom…
Very soon there will be no one left to make up the news!
Whatever happened to the Charge a Lot for all of Maureen Dowd’s Addicted Readers business model?
AlohaGuy, you slay me! That one gets the gold star!
I guess they realized that the WH is their newsroom now.
If the NY Times went out of business, what crossword puzzle could people brag about being able to do?
It’s all they have left to offer.
How will people light campfires or house break their dogs?
It would be delicious to know how many of the NYT cast offs apply with Fox News.
How hard can it be to reprint the propaganda releases from Gibbs and Dunn at the White House Communications Division.
FIFY
If the New York Times goes under, what will I use to cover the floor when I’m stripping paint off furniture?
How many more slashing and cuttings to GO?
NYT’s slow torturous death march to oblivion is too much for me.
Does Obama’s media Czar have powers of “Death Panels” which can swiftly pull the life support and end NYT’s misery?
Time to get out the violins!!! The NYT made a clear choice to stop reporting the news so they could deal in propaganda. The faster they sink, the better. Just think of the environment pluses of not cutting trees to print that paper. Al Gore would be proud!!!
Anyone want to lay odds if it came to a choice between laying off a conservative (if there are any) employee or liberal one, who they’d lay off first?
Your 2010 Census Form?
If I were selling a product, Mr. and Mrs. America would have no idea whether I was conservative or liberal. If you are obviously biased one way or another, you are alienating 1/2 of your potential customer base. Yet, there is no ideological adjustment taking place at any newspaper. These liberal media institutions are just handing the competition customers. Is it no coincidence that FNC and WSJ are booming because they offer balanced counterpoint.
“New York Times, your stateroom is ready on the SS Titanic. All aboard!”
Your 2010 Census Form?
Of course, thank you.
Could this mean that David Brooks will soon be sending out his resume? It’s a delightful thought, but he could probably find work anywhere in the MSM as a house “conservative.” Heck, he could even find work at the White House with no problem.
I loved it back when the Times tried to charge actual money to read Dowd, Krugman, Brooks, et al, and found that no one was buying. So they went back to giving it away for free, which means it’s STILL overpriced.
Can’t stand the WaPo. Anyone that would hire Art Buchwald……
This has to be fake. There haven’t been any actual “journalists” at the NYT for decades…
When the best use for your product is fishwrap, it would seem they could cut the entire 1,250 employees, cut out another middleman, and send the raw paper straight to a fish market.
Buth then again, wouldn’t it be pathetic to see all those out of work hacks on street corners selling copies of “Journalism for Dummies.”
The Times’ internal projections predict that its output of leftard propaganda could drop by as much as 12 percent as a result of the cuts.
I stopped getting the Hartford Courant last spring when I got a good offer to get the Wall Street Journal. (It’s actually delivered to my house by the same person.) What a difference in quality!
I sent the Courant a letter explaining that I was looking for real news instead of feature stories filling up the front section. Every few weeks I get another offer to subscribe, but the only enticement they have is a discount. They just can’t understand that I would purchase the paper if it would inform me instead of trying to entertain me.
Months later, the paper retracted after discovering they got the story wrong.
Times Select died a fast death, didn’t it?
The Times has earned, and deserves, all the Schadenfreude being experienced at its expense.
Here are some places the New York Times could start pruning excess baggage that is not needed: 1) Roger Cohen. Cohen is an apologist for the government of Iran although after the fraudulent election, Cohen had to backtrack and offer some ginger criticism of Iranian government “excesses”. The hapless Wolf Blitzer at CNN did his best to try to rehabilitate Cohen 2) Nicholas Kritof. He has now written the same column about how wonderful and selfless he is and how bad Israel is at least 500 times 3) Clark Hoyt. He has written the same column fifty times about how there is no liberal bias at the Times, the editorials are all fair and the oped page reflects all points of view. All three of the above are useless.
I wonder how much money the NYT could save by cutting Maureen Dowd? She is another NYT columnist that essentially writes the same column every week.
Cut her column back to once a year and you could just run that same column 52 times a year and save a bundle!
They have to learn to think outside the box at NYT if they want to survive…
I wonder if they will lay off the person who is in charge of reading conservative blogs, watches Beck or has a piano fall on his/her head with a news story attached?
Ah, to die the Death of a Thousand Cuts-they deserve it. Even their Sports page has become a smart mouthed, smart Alec leftist waste-bleed Gray Lady, bleed.
Yes, it might be nice if El Rushbo put together a group to buy the Times–then Axelrod and Emmanuel can tell both of PMSNBC viewers not to read it! Personally I would keep Maureen Dowd as comic relief-either that or she gets a job with the Hussein Obama Administration.
…and send them back to their floor mopping and toilet cleaning positions.
Zero. They’ll return to mom’s basement and troll conservative blogs.
I wish Michelle would stop picking on the NYT.
They really aren’t entirely worthless.. If they go under, lots of pet owners will have to find a new alternative for Paper Training..
Ok not really.. Carry on Michelle.. =P
A blessing upon them: May this be the beginning of many more cutbacks to come.
Why doesn’t the Times follow the advice of their Nobel Prize winning economist and borrow and spend their way out of their current financial state?
Oh, my bad–they tried that already. Maybe they should fire that economist for being wrong.
Better yet, why don’t they propose a 25% tax on newspaper purchases? This money will be pass through Washington and eventually some part returned to the newspapers in the forms of subsidies and government purchases of their rag. It won’t help their business but it may help their brain-dead staff understand the consequences of the policies they advocate for the rest of us.
as alohaguy so correctly noted, the times has no newsroom, so could that 100 layoffs mean bad news for the AP. we can only hope. give that cow dowd the boot, she needs a good screwing over.