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News and Observer offers buyouts to entire newsroom
Today is another sad day in the N&O newsroom. Buyouts were offered to 320 employees, including the entire newsroom staff, the Triangle Business Journal reports. The publisher says he doesn’t expect many newsroom staff to take the buyouts. If enough buyouts aren’t taken, more layoffs could be coming.
Ginny Skalski
The newspaper also plans to cut newsprint costs. Starting in early October, the Travel section will be combined on Sunday with Arts & Living. The Friday “What’s Up” entertainment tab will be folded into the features section, and the Channels television guide will be changed into a 16-page tabloid publication.
8 Responses to “News and Observer offers buyouts to entire newsroom”
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Jason Peck
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
wow, that is sad.
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Gregory Ng
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
really sad and unfortunate.
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Andrea Martin
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Woah, they’re ending the entertainment tab? What is going on here?
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Ginny Skalski
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
@Andrea I don’t think losing the entertainment tab is that big of a loss. To be honest, I subscribe to the print edition and I can’t remember the last time I actually looked at the tab. It must be buried among the advertisements or hiding behind sports (which I never look at). Besides, the Indy has a pretty firm lock down on the entertainment market here. Who really turns to the N&O for entertainment news?
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Andrea Martin
September 4th, 2008 at 11:31 am
@Ginny I’m sure what you said is precisely why they’re dropping it. Which sucks from my viewpoint since I work on the entertainment tab at my paper. Now I wonder how many people turn to alternate sources for their entertainment news instead of our tab. sigh.
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Ginny Skalski
September 4th, 2008 at 11:33 am
@Andrea Sorry, I didn’t mean to bring up a sore subject. On the bright side, I’m sure your entertainment tab is much better than the N&O’s.
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Expect more layoffs at The News and Observer | 30Threads.com: Highlighting the Triangle Online
September 17th, 2008 at 8:32 am
[...] more layoffs at The News and Observer Result 1 Discovered September 17, 2008 at 8:32 am Remember all those buyouts The News and Observer offered its employees? Well, today is the deadline for employees to accept. [...]
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News and Observer reporters accept buyouts | 30Threads.com: Highlighting the Triangle Online
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
[...] Fiona Morgan from the Indy has the scoop, saying 10 percent of newsroom employees accepted recently offered buyouts. Ginny Skalski Among them is Samiha Khanna, who covers Durham County and its school [...]