Stephens paper wields axe
Some Arkansas newspaper employees undoubtedly hope that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas.
I refer to news here that the dominant Las Vegas daily newspaper is hoping to trim 50 to 100 people from payroll through buyouts. Go-go Las Vegas has been battered by collapse of the housing market and the rest of the poor economy.
The local angle: The Review-Journal is a property of the Little Rock-based Stephens financial empire, acquired when Stephens bought the Donrey media group years ago. Stephens Media operates a number of newspapers in Arkansas.
It's happening all over, by the way. The blog operated by former Arkansas Gazetter Jim Hopkins reports that the Gannett Corporation is going to lay off 10 percent, or 3,000, of its newspaper division employees by early December. Gannett owns one newspaper in Arkansas, the Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home.
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Newspapers as such are a dying breed.
They're headed the way of VHS, dial telephones and delivered milk.
Yes, there are some VHSs around, we have one but rarely does it get
moved much less used. Some people still use what they assume to be
a dial telephone and only a very few places have milk delivery.
AT has the model for tomorrow. So does Huffington, TPM, etc.
Rock on AT ! Hope the sidebars and banners are paying.
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October 28, 2008 04:19 PM
The Christian Science Monitor is giving up its weekday print editions next year.
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=153032
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October 28, 2008 04:26 PM
While we are on newspapers the Stephens paper in Springdale, The Morning News, endorsed McBush yesteday. No surprise up here. Being moderate in TMN territory means you did not
contribute to Jesus Jim Holt's campaign but you did vote for him.
Meanwhile the ADG paper up in Benton County endorsed Obama.
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October 28, 2008 04:31 PM
"Meanwhile the ADG paper up in Benton County endorsed Obama."
eLwood, was it the paper that endorsed Obama or just Kane Webb?
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October 28, 2008 05:34 PM
Someone might nose around the PB Commercial and see what the heck is going on. Publisher is now also the editor, reporters and the public are taking the photos, sections have been consolidated or worse and folks still there seemed to have been moved around or disappeared altogether. Oh, and the advertising seems to have dropped precipitously, at least on the days I've really paid attention to it. Not good. Not good at all.
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October 28, 2008 10:20 PM