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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:48 PM Jan 2013

Washington Times lays off staff

Source: Washington Post

The Washington Times has just laid off newsroom staffers in a move that’s 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, ‘It’s unfortunate to have to do this. This is the toughest part.’ … They’re 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/

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Washington Times lays off staff (Original Post) Newsjock Jan 2013 OP
Well, I guess that will be the end of incisive, cutting-edge Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #1
the moonie times samsingh Jan 2013 #2
Aww, poor Moonies...they're playing your song! MADem Jan 2013 #3
Fewer people producing trash jsr Jan 2013 #4
In front of 20 employees sharp_stick Jan 2013 #5
The Moonie Times = GOP talking points developed by media empire of a Korean cult leader blm Jan 2013 #6
Are they keeping Turd Nugget? Dirty Socialist Jan 2013 #7
Both of them? ashling Jan 2013 #8
The Moonie founder is dead. His son is greedy Panasonic Jan 2013 #9

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. Well, I guess that will be the end of incisive, cutting-edge
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:49 PM
Jan 2013

investigative journalism from the Moonie Times.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
5. In front of 20 employees
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:56 PM
Jan 2013

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)
6. The Moonie Times = GOP talking points developed by media empire of a Korean cult leader
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 01:57 PM
Jan 2013

With Rev Moon gone, NWO and the GOP will rely even more on Rupert Murdoch, the Australian extortionist.

 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
9. The Moonie founder is dead. His son is greedy
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 02:05 PM
Jan 2013

and wants to grab all the cash before WT flops.

It's already a flop.

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