Today the Miami Herald will be reducing the newsroom's full-time staff by 30+ and also eliminated 8 part-time jobs, they are eliminated 175 jobs over-all. They are also instituting pay reductions by as much as 10%. There are a number of other cost cutting efforts going into effect.
The presses are also being converted to save production costs.
Although I have had a love-hate relationship with the Miami Herald, I am saddened by this state of affairs and I feel bad especially for my friends in the newsroom (who have actually taken journalism classes).
4 comments:
This stinks.
Why doesn't the Herald charge more than they do? I think those of who read the Herald do not expect to have it printed and delivered to us at home for .50 cents a day. while I wouldn't want to spend 50.00 a month on it... I sure think they were slow in raising the rates from .35
I think building readership involves real stories, and they chose not to work on allowing the reporters some freedom to report the facts without the political handcuffs. Shame on the OWNERS.
The Herald stopped being a newspaper a long time ago. Plus, Dade County residents are exactly civic minded and don't exactly demand the news. Go shopping!
Does anyone know who got canned on the news staff we might know?
The owners of the Miami Herald should fire the idiots on the Editorial Board who endorsed Jose Cancella for Miami-Dade County Mayor. He came in ninth. Lately the idiots at the Editorial Board have written recommending the giveaway of taxpayer money to the privately owned Marlins baseball team. It appears the Editorial Board do not even read the stories written by 4-5 of its own investigative journalists.
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