We Were Print

From the files of ‘People Who Do Stuff Better Than Us’, Erica Smith (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) has an interactive and up to date map showing newspaper buytous and layoffs across the United States of these here Americas.

So far, she sees 6,000 fewer people working at newspapers.
(Thanks to the wmhartnett who brought this to our attention.)

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General Questions
(check back for updates)
Q: Will the company provide any help with tuition, etc. for job re-training for those who take the buyout or are laid off?
A: Per Linda Murphy, No help with tuition but we are coordinating with Workforce Alliance who have re-training programs. Note that some have called EAP – which offers nothing [...]

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We have all been asking questions and talking with co-workers about our options, but it all seems to be happening in dribs and drabs.
We thought it might make sense for us to share information as we move through this process.
In conversations with co-workers, it seems some of the questions some have asked didn’t come up [...]

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Dedicated to Print Journalists
This Web site is dedicated to print journalists – specifically, newspaper journalists.
We are not blind to the irony of the Web as the medium we will use to connect with one another; we’re well aware that it’s one of the many reasons print is facing dire losses of readership.
However, we hold hope [...]

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