New York Daily News Layoffs Hit Multiple Departments

Capital New York:

Layoffs have come to the Daily News.

Since this morning, staffers to be laid off have been getting called into a conference room to meet with senior vice president of human-resources Jeff Zomper. They're being told the layoffs are part of a "downsizing" operation at the paper. The layoffs aren't yet complete, (The New York Observer and the New York Post are putting the total number at 10); we've confirmed the names of a few of those who've been laid off so far.

Read the whole story: Capital New York

Comments

[wforvendetta]

12:27 AM on 11/08/2011

Everyone now has access to breaking news. By the time a newspaper hits your doorstep, most of its content already has been posted online.

Conservative newspapers are hurting, too. The NY Post is losing readers and the Washington Times is on life support, with fewer than 40,000 subscribers.

[cas2dy]

08:33 AM on 11/06/2011

Hmmm...maybe that's why I haven't been able to log into my DN account to post anything for the past two days. Trouble brewing in the ranks?

[kurtvb]

06:54 AM on 11/06/2011

These layoffs are indicative of an industry that has lost the confidence of is readers. Scandals without substance, T&A, celebrity sensationalism, will not keep readers.

[PatrickforO]

08:29 PM on 11/06/2011

I agree with you to some extent. Newspapers are dying out because most people now get their news online. That said, you are probably quite right that the industry is losing the confidence of readers. We don't get anything like the true news unless we have good research skills and are willing to dig for it. Maybe it is because the media thinks we're too stupid to be able to follow something complex (or they are not good enough writers to report it so we can). Or, maybe it is because five or six transnational corporations own virtually all the news outlets, and those in their executive suites believe their interests best served by an ignorant populace. This has been going on decades. Check out the great Asimov quote below.

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States and there always has been. The strain of anti-intel­lectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that your ignorance is just as good as my knowledge.­"

-Isaac Asimov
Newsweek 21 January 1980

[Denisehh3]

12:55 AM on 11/06/2011

Absolutely no business is immune to the spiraling economy unfortunately.......

[woodcrestmac]

09:01 AM on 11/27/2011

" NOW LISTEN,

[dana94591]

04:01 PM on 11/05/2011

Let's hear it for the job creators!! Job creators are not creating any new jobs but laying people off!!

[ljc]

10:49 AM on 11/05/2011

I guess Mort will have to back to speech writing for President Obama...

oh wait...he lied about that

[drich104]

06:53 AM on 11/05/2011

Don't knock the Daily News. I'm down here in Tampa and I miss the News. Everytime I go up to NY, one of the first things I do is get some newspapers, and Beer.

[xxxlorddantexxx]

07:11 PM on 11/04/2011

Too bad that hack Lupica wasn't "downsized" in the process. Any amount The News pays that character is way too much.

[Humanitari Leandro]

04:30 PM on 11/04/2011

Oooohhh some bullies got fired, now they will understand the pain of the very PEOPLE unenployed they TRASHED in this low class paper, now join the ranks puppetts the rich did not care and got you out the DOOR

[Swedenworks]

04:22 PM on 11/04/2011

How about firing their editorial staff? They suck! They're just The Post #2. Oops, I guess they just write what the man orders anyway.