Labor journalist Mike Elk reporting on the Newseum layoffs: “now it serves as a true monument to the journalism industry.”
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Newspaper fails Communications 101
Put this one in the Who’s On First file.
Half of newsroom employees cut in New Orleans
On May 29, Times-Picayune reporter Danny Monteverde was covering the murder of Briana Allen, the 5-year-old who was shot to death at a child’s birthday party at Simon Bolivar Avenue and Thalia Street. Monteverde was tackling the delicate task of interviewing Briana’s family.
When the interview was over, one of the girl’s cousins said to him, gently, “I’m sorry about what’s happening to your newspaper.”
Today Monteverde lost his job.
He was just one of more than 200 Times-Picayune employees who were told today that their services would no longer be required as of Sept. 30. Eighty-four of the cuts came from the newsroom staff, which numbered 169 — a 49 percent cut. — More.
Times-Picayune features layoffs on front page, Alabama papers minimize ‘job status’
“I used to joke with people that for a political cartoonist, living in New Orleans represented job security,” Kelley said via e-mail. “Okay, so I was wrong.”
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
John McQuaid / The Atlantic Online: Why a Weak Website Can’t Replace a Daily Newspaper in New Orleans
Campbell Robertson / New York Times: New Orleans Struggles With Latest Storm, Newspaper Layoffs
John McQuaid / blogs.forbes.com/johnmcquaid: Gutting The Times-Picayune to Save It
Jason Berry / The Nation: Rolling the Dice at the ‘Times-Picayune’
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Times-Picayune restaurant critic laid off
Discussion:Erik Wemple, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Diner’s Journal, @justinnxt, @erikwemple and New Orleans Times-Picayune
Julie Moos / Poynter: Times-Picayune features layoffs on front page, Alabama papers minimize ‘job status’
Julia Moskin / Diner’s Journal: Brett Anderson, New Orleans Food Writer, Is Laid Off
Justin Ellis / @justinnxt: Times-Picayune is classless. @brettandersontp says he was laid off b/c of Nieman fellowship http://wapo.st/LzRHU5 via @ErikWemple
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: New Orleans Times-Picayune Layoffs: Paper Cuts A Third Of Its Staff
Discussion:WWL-TV, NolaVie, The Atlantic Wire, @wrightthompson, The Daily Beast and Blog of New Orleans, Gambit
Renee Peck / NolaVie: A long, sad day unfolding at The Times-Picayune
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire: Say Goodbye to a Third of the Times-Picayune Staff
Julie Moos / Poynter: Times-Picayune tells readers: ‘This is a difficult week at our paper’
Steve Myers / Poynter: Advance Publications lays off 600 people at Times-Picayune, Alabama papers – (Via Mediagazer)
A brutal day in the newspaper world
Layoffs underway at Times-Picayune, Advance’s Alabama papers — Employees at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and Advance Publications’ papers in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville, Ala., have started to learn if they’ll have jobs when the papers stop printing every day and shift their focus to their websites.
Discussion:New Orleans Times-Picayune, WWL-TV, Grub Street New York, Gambit New Orleans News … and AdPulp
Alyssa Shelasky / Grub Street New York: Brett Anderson Fired From NOLA’s Times-Pic
Kevin Allman / Gambit New Orleans News …: Pushback at The Times-Picayune as cuts loom
RELATED:
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Times-Picayune tells readers: ‘This is a difficult week at our paper’ — As journalists at Advance Publications’ New Orleans and Alabama papers receive word of layoffs, Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss is responding to readers angry about the plan to reduce printing and staff.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: New Orleans Times-Picayune Layoffs: Paper Cuts A Third Of Its Staff25 minutes ago
Discussion:Blog of New Orleans, Gambit and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune: Times-Picayune advertisers voice opposition to newspaper’s planned changes
Discussion:American Journalism Review and Bayoubuzz.com
SOURCE: Mediagazer.
ALSO: As journalists at Advance Publications’ New Orleans and Alabama papers receive word of layoffs, Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss is responding to readers angry about the plan to reduce printing and staff. Amoss appears in a video on NOLA.com published Tuesday, as meetings are under way to inform individuals of their future with the company. In the video, Amoss speaks to readers:
UPDATE: Detroit Free Press to cut staff