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Source: Washington Post
The Washington Times has just laid off newsroom staffers in a move thats been in the works for weeks. New top editor David Jackson and new Times CEO Larry Beasley broke the news at a meeting of approximately 20 employees, according to one person who attended.
They came in and said, Its unfortunate to have to do this. This is the toughest part.
Theyre sorry and they have to make painful decisions moving forward, reports the now-former employee. I would call it pretty much boilerplate.
One person asked Jackson and Beasley how the paper would manage with what would now be a threadbare photo department. The answer was that the Times would have to be resourceful and perhaps use wire photos when available. More standard, depressing newspaper-downsizing talk, in other words.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/04/washington-times-lays-off-staff/
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)investigative journalism from the Moonie Times.
samsingh
(17,571 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)so I guess this was a worldwide corporate meeting then. The moonie times has been on it's deathbed for years, the only thing that's kept them going AFAIK is the influx of cash from the cult itself.
I wonder if it finally dried up for good when the supreme weirdo himself died last September?
blm
(112,919 posts)With Rev Moon gone, NWO and the GOP will rely even more on Rupert Murdoch, the Australian extortionist.
Dirty Socialist
(3,248 posts)My guess is they probably are...
ashling
(25,771 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)and wants to grab all the cash before WT flops.
It's already a flop.