Media Layoffs

Time Inc. To Cut $100 Million From Costs; Extensive Layoffs Are Expected

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media


Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time Inc. is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including an...

Take Me to the Intersection of Poetry and Journalism

Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago


Jane Dwyre Garton

Journalists today are often stressed rather than inspired. Bring on the poetry. Bring on new voices. Tell us something that matters with words that tell us about the world, about the human condition.

Jason Linkins

Gannett Newspapers Sends Employees Home For Week Of Unpaid Leave

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media


Yowch. Even with the near daily dose of grim news regarding the imminent Death Of All Print media, Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell is correct to...

What's Wrong with Our Health Care System: #538 of Infinity

Doug Hatt | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living


Doug Hatt

In order to qualify for this safety-net health insurance coverage, I had to go without any kind of health insurance for anywhere between 45 and 90 days. Not just me, but my wife and baby.

Jason Linkins

CNN 'Parts Ways' With In-House Headhunter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media


It wasn't long ago that CNN prexy Jon Klein, swimming in $1.1 billion in revenue, was cutting against the gloomy, layoffs-are-coming media landscape b...

Tina Brown Slams "Feckless Bureaucrats" Ruining Media Companies

The Daily Beast | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media


The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place. The...

Miles to Go: CNN Fires Technology Unit, Keeps Ridiculous Technology

Chez Pazienza | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media


Chez Pazienza

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who's been screwed as thoroughly and with as much sheer audacity by CNN over the past few years as Miles O'Brien.

Jason Linkins

Star-Ledger Re-Assigns Reporters...To The Mailroom

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.20.2008 | Media


Yowch! Over at Editor and Publisher, Joe Strupp reports on the latest developments at the financially troubled Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ, where two j...