That's why they call it the Scar

[sigma7]

KC Star lays off 50 employees. (Moar info here.) No, this is not a repeat; this is the third time layoffs -- I'm sorry, "an involuntary workforce reduction" -- hit the paper in the last five months. This is not entirely remarkable -- US News & World Report has gone from weekly to biweekly to monthly in the same timespan. Not that US News is the most notable such incident (I could go on, but I think we can live with one less death knell today), just the most amusing to me because it gets shunted backwards almost as quickly as my NaNoWriMo project.

Anyone still employed by print, have an escape plan.

Comments

[rewil.livejournal.com]

We had a meeting yesterday; 8 people gone. At least the online dept. seems to be the way forward for now, since I've already lost one job this year. Bleh.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Escape already made! :)

[beagle1971.livejournal.com]

Done and done.

[samson-of-5.livejournal.com]

I planned so far ahead I escaped before I even made my entrance!

[kansel01.livejournal.com]

We're protected by a magic bubble of stupidity. Monday a story was picked up by Drudge Report. We asked for assistance from corporate when our site was almost non-responsive and were told to kill the file. We built a low-band version and that story received over 300k page views. Yesterday they published a story about how we were "drudged" and submitted it... to Drudge Report (and a whole host of other places) and guess what. Yep, chicken butt.

Sonny Scroggins is the new Fred Phelps. Best thing to happen is this quote: "I got Jesus, I got the Internet, and now I got Nov. 4, 2008."