Job cuts at the New York Times

Juan Antonio Giner analysis is spot on again

Here is a snippet of Bill Keller's memo to the staff of the New York Times

Let me cut to the chase: We have been told to reduce the newsroom by 100 positions between now and the end of the year.
We hope to accomplish this by offering voluntary buyouts. On Thursday, the Company will be sending buyout offers to everyone in the newsroom. Getting a buyout package does NOT mean we want you to leave. It is simply easier to send the envelopes to everyone. If you think a buyout may be right for you, you have up to 45 days to decide whether you will accept it or not.
As before, if we do not reach 100 positions through buyouts, we will be forced to go to layoffs. I hope that won’t happen, but it might.

Not so long ago, Keller said on further layoffs at the NYT, "The answer is no... No I do not see another round of newsroom staff reductions on the horizon."

Giner's statement on this: MORE CUTS, LESS CHANGE

Read his post @ www.innovationsinnewspapers.com

Air accident

First to the news

Miles O'Brien in NY was one of the first to blog and twitter with excellent news and analysis

OK, time is on the side of those west of the Atlantic Ocean

But we are supposed to be a 24 hour news planet

And here I am, many hours later with my comments, although I am on holiday

Juan Antonio Giner has some great media analysis on his blog 'innovationsinnewspapers'

But surely we need some great, but small infographic to explain and show what happened

Lets wait and see the press tomorrow, as there is not much online

Publish the news and raise hell!

Justice at last

Shahid Malik has stepped down as Justice Minister following the Telegraph's revelations over his expense claims

Since being elected in 2005, Malik has claimed the maximum amount allowable for a second home, amounting to £66,827 over three years

Bloody hell. And this from MPs, who launched the 'benefit fraud' campaign earlier this month

How ironic! Or moronic, however which way you see it

A single mother, claiming benefit, who irons clothes for undeclared cash is small beer compared to the 'second home' scams for which the UK tax payer, for years, has supplemented

It is a complete and utter outrage, as today The Council of Mortgage Lenders announce that 'Repossessions have risen by 50pc' year on year

But the MPs expenses stories are good for selling newspapers, and driving traffic online

Innovation in newspapers director, Juan Antonio Giner comments on his great blog:

It’s like a slow motion daily torture.

And if you subscribe to the Telegraph “alerts” you will the first to know about the next discovery.

Yesterday my local press agent in S[t]. Davids was calling to the Telegraph distribution center asking for extra copies.

Today I went around 11 am to buy the paper and I got the last copy.

So, the saga continues.

And the paper is a daily sold out.

The Telegraph is telling us a superb lesson in order to cope with any newspaper crisis:

Exclusive news and stories always sell.

And The Daily Telegraph has plenty of them.

Readers love them.

Not the crooks.

So again and again:

Publish the news and raise hell!