| Star-Telegram Announces Layoffs |
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| by Carolyn Barta | Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 11:48 AM |
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is laying off 15 employees in a restructuring that involves eight in the newsroom. The Star-Tel says the move comes as the newspaper industry struggles with a continued slide in circulation and advertising that has resulted in an industry loss last year of 16,900 positions -- nearly 5 percent of employees. The paper's owner, the McClatchy Co. has suffered a big drop in its stock price since it bought Knight-Ridder in 2005. Pegasus News has reported the layoffs include Rex Seline, managing editor/news; national/international desk editor Jim Peipert; "reader advocate" David House; night business editor Jim Frisinger (a layoff veteran who was part of the Dallas Morning News layoff of 2004); design editor Monique Miller; and illustrator/graphics artists Dave Seymour and Matt Pinkney. Another McClatchy paper, the Seattle Times, recently announced larger layoffs of some 200 employees.
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written by Dan Carswell , April 18, 2008 The Star-Telegram is not a very good or fair newspaper, and in fact is very biased and ganerally pretty one-sided in its coverage of what it presents as "news". It is a Democrat-Liberal publication; and this layoff may be an indication that the readers it likely takes for granted are not enthused about its "news" coverage.
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written by Ken Dickson , April 20, 2008 maybe the media will ralize they are not in touch with the general public's lifestyle...look @ the Dallas News with their liberal bent & their continued "press" of an agenda that does not hit the mainstream public!
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written by Russ , April 20, 2008 Politics has little to do with it, as anyone who's bothered to do a little reading about the industry's economics knows. These cuts have go back to the corporate owners wanting bigger profits and doing everything possible -- ie, laying off the worker bees -- to satisfy that insatiable appetite. If anything readers will lose, because fewer stories are covered when a newspaper has a smaller staff.
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written by Layoff Employee at Startlegram , April 21, 2008 Dan and Ken are typical Star-Telegram customers. If their exact views are not presented, then the paper is liberal. There isn't enough room to put the awards for news excellence the Star-Telegram has won recently for its coverage. The problem is McClatchy. They are trying to get more bang for their buck and going about it the wrong way. They are elimanting positions, including Customer Service, which means the service will get worse...not the news coverage. Write comment
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