Julie Moos
Feb. 2, 2013
2:22 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 31, 2013
2:38 pm
Since The New York Times
finished its most recent round of buyouts and layoffs, emails to staffers have noted many of the people who've taken the deals and/or are leaving. Here's an updated list:
That's 21 of the 30 positions the Times said it was hoping to cut. "We stated at the beginning of the process that we expected we would need to eliminate about 30 positions from the newsroom staff," Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy tells Poynter in an email. "We met that goal primarily through the voluntary buyout program with a very limited number of layoffs."
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 28, 2013
6:05 pm
The New York Times | Poynter
New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson tells staffers the paper's
most recent round of buyouts limited layoffs: "In the end, we had to layoff far fewer people than we anticipated, having achieved most of our savings through the voluntary process," she writes.
Christine Haughney
relays the changes to the paper's masthead. Jason Stallman will replace Joe Sexton as sports editor.
Larry Ingrassia, the former business editor, will become an assistant managing editor for new initiatives, which includes the expansion of The Times’s international coverage. Janet Elder will become an assistant managing editor with responsibility for overseeing newsroom resources, including the budget, as well as dealing with compensation and staff development. Ian Fisher will become an assistant managing editor for content operations, with responsibility for overseeing the continued integration of the digital and print sides of The Times.
The full memo from Abramson:
Colleagues,
I wanted to let you know quickly that we are through the process of offering voluntary buyouts and cutting staff. In the end, we had to layoff far fewer people than we anticipated, having achieved most of our savings through the voluntary process.
We will continue to reposition ourselves, to meet the challenges of remaking ourselves for the digital age. The changes underway are part of the journey that we’ve been on for years: integrating our print and digital operations, expanding our reporting, deepening our ways of telling stories, innovating in ways that make our journalism the literal envy of our profession and the joy of our readers.
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 25, 2013
9:29 am
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The New York Times'
round of buyouts that ended Thursday landed heavily on some of the organization's digital leaders:
Jonathan Landman, who took charge of the paper's digital newsroom in 2005;
John Geddes, who stressed the importance of maintaining the Times' standards online;
Terry Schwadron, the paper's information and news-technology editor; Assistant Managing Editor (and social media star) Jim Roberts; and
Tom Torok, who headed the Times' computer-assisted reporting team.
Poynter Online Managing Editor Mallary Tenore talked with Editor of Interactive News Aron Pilhofer, who said Geddes' absence would have the most "direct impact" on him:
John has been amazing. And obviously Jim, who has been instrumental in supporting all the things we do, both with social media and technology. It's really unfortunate to lose both those guys -- and Terry. Literally every editor who had some influence or impact in my time here at The New York Times is leaving. (more...)
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 24, 2013
11:58 am
New York Times employees
have until COB Thursday to accept the company's buyout package. The company was hoping about 30 newsroom leaders would take the offer, it announced in December, as "the primary goal of the buyout program is to trim highly paid managers from its books." In a memo earlier this week, Executive Editor Jill Abramson
encouraged employees to consider the option:
If you think the buyout is something that works for you at this time in your life, we urge you to give the offer serious consideration if you haven’t already.
Layoffs may follow if the buyouts don't "reach the savings we need," Abramson writes.
Who's bitten so far?
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and
Joe Pompeo both run down buyout-takers. Former Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications Bob Christie tells Bloomgarden-Smoke he was laid off: "My position was eliminated as part of company wide cost cutting," he said in an email.
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 23, 2013
12:04 pm
Jeff Bradley
Jeff Bradley
isn't going to miss reporting on the Yankees for the (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger, which
laid off employees last week. He was hired as a columnist but his bosses switched him to the pinstripe beat after the previous writer left.
I was not happy. I have two teenage sons who like having a dad to make them breakfast in the morning. I have a wife who works full-time.
When I was the columnist, I'd often walk through the door after 2 a.m. after covering a game in the Bronx or Flushing. But at least I'd be home. A baseball beat writer spends about 150-170 nights per year in a hotel room between the months of February and October.
Had the Ledger been looking for a Yankee beat writer when I was on my way out at ESPN The Magazine, I would not have even filled out an application. I wouldn't have done that to my family.
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 4, 2013
1:42 pm
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About 20 Washington Times staffers were laid off by editor David Jackson and CEO Larry Beasley Friday, Erik Wemple reports. The cuts hit the photo department hard, he writes:
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.
Washington City Paper's Will Sommer writes that Times staffer
Steve Repsher has now been laid off twice by the Times -- during the paper's
2009 layoffs and again today.
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 6, 2012
2:57 pm
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Julie Moos
Dec. 3, 2012
9:23 am
The New York Times | New York Observer | Poynter
The New York Times announced Monday that it would be offering buyout packages to 30 newsroom managers, reports Christine Haughney. Editor Jill Abramson told staff that layoffs could follow.
While the primary goal of the buyout program is to trim highly paid managers from its books, the company is offering some reporters and editors in the newsroom the chance to volunteer for buyout packages as well. ...
“There is no getting around the hard news that the size of the newsroom staff must be reduced,” Ms. Abramson said in the letter.
The Times previously offered buyouts in October 2011, October 2009, and February 2008.
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