We Were Print

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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Love those priorities — the Cubs make his first graf.
Dec. 8, 2008
Partners,
We just announced that Tribune is restructuring its debt under Chapter 11 protection. I’m sure you saw the speculative coverage last night and this morning. I would have preferred everyone get the news from me first, but since our debt is publicly traded, we [...]

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Starting January 1, 2009, Tribune’s Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel will be printing Cox’s Palm Beach Post.
Also as of January 1, approximately 300 employess from the Post’s production department will be out of work.
No word as to what that means for the Post’s printing press, other production equipment or the building in which all that stuff lives.

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Looks like soon there will be one Mother paper in S.Fla. and all the papers that “were” will be bureaus to it. A lot of freelancing going on.
The news that triggers that theory was released this week: the “sharing” of editorial content among the major dailies.
Here’s the gist of the announcement to the troops from [...]

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