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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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Alex Taylor, appointed publisher of The Palm Beach Post in January, takes leave of the paper after staff cuts for a position over several media outlets in Dayton, Ohio.
Link to the story in The Palm Beach Post here.
Cox Media reorganizes its top tier
Meanwhile, the parent group, Cox Media Group, reorganizes. Here’s the circles chart. (NP = newspaper. RD = radio) [...]

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Cox takes Statesman off the market
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, August 06, 2009
The owner of the Austin American-Statesman has taken the newspaper off the market after deciding that offers it had received did not reflect the value of the company.
The Statesman will operate as part of Cox Media Group, a publishing, digital media and broadcasting subsidiary of Atlanta-based [...]

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Off the AP Newswire:
 Cox Enterprises Inc. agreed to sell more than a dozen North Carolina newspapers to a company headed by the son of late billionaire Jack Kent Cooke.
Cox said Monday that it will sell the Rocky Mount Telegram, The Daily Reflector of Greenville and The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City along with 10 weekly papers [...]

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