We Were Print

Food editors are a dying breed at newspapers – be very glad if you’ve still got one person dedicated to the dining scene in your area.
After 30 years in the business, Deborah Hartz-Seely decided to leave while the section was at its prime.
Since Hartz didn’t do a goodbye column, and there was no announcement from [...]

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The Unity Journalists, an alliance of journalists who work to keep newsrooms and the news representative of the national diversity, began tracking news industry layoffs in January 2008.
No light reading
Its 2009 report is grim.
During one month – December 2008 — nearly 7400 jobs were lost in the journalism field.
 210 media outlets have completely disappeared since January ‘08.
Since [...]

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Lisa Rab, reporter for the New Times – Broward-Palm Beach edition – has a media story this week titled The Rise and Fall of South Florida’s Daily Newspapers.
Rab interviews several journalists who took the “voluntary” buyouts.
You can read it through this link.
 Those in the business – and now out of it – will recognize most of the names, [...]

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43 Daytona Beach News-Journal employees lose their jobs as newspaper continues looking for a buyer
The story posted today by Henry Frederick, on NSBnews.net – an online community newspaper in New Smyrna Beach:
By Henry Frederick
DAYTONA BEACH — Forty-three employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal lost their jobs earlier today, according to several sources.
Of the 43 cuts, 16 were in [...]

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Today’s edition is the last for the Boca News, a Knight-Ridder satellite. Management announced Friday they were shutting down the print operation and will take a very small staff to go digital only.
Talent from the paper is now scattered across the globe and marks its passing in comments on Bob Norman’s blog, The Daily Pulp. Norman gives [...]

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