Loading ...All sorts of tweets are showing up on Twitter right now regarding the rumored Enquirer job cuts that have been floating around for the past month or so. Looks like the whole thing’s coming down on CinWeekly and Metromix.
In short, we’re sorry to hear this and are thinking of you guys who got the boot.
Will update with more solid information as I get it.
UPDATE: Cincinnati Blog is reporting that Peter Bronson and David Wells were also part of the Black Wednesday festivities.
UPDATE: Looks like the news has hit the pages of the Business Courier.
UPDATE: The planet’s preeminent critic of the Cincinnati Enquirer, cincynewsache.blogspot.com, posted something about #BlackWednesday this evening. It was Newsache’s first post since retiring in September of ‘08.
UPDATE: The Bronson layoff is official. Via CityBeat.
UPDATE: CinWeekly’s Staff page is still up:
Revenge indeed.
UPDATE: #Blackwednesday appears to have turned into #Blackthursday as Gannett newspapers nationwide continue to lay off employees. As an observer who doesn’t work in journalism and never has, I wonder how this will affect the end product, and the face of journalism as an industry.
Gannett’s profits are in the shitter. So, they’re suffering in that way. Its newly former employees are definitely suffering as a direct result of this. As a result of that, Gannett’s current employees are inevitably going to be asked to shoulder more responsibility than they can possibly bear. The quality of coverage can’t possibly stay where it is (which is to say, Ergh). Aren’t we, the reader of the news, the audience, suffering as a result of this, too? We’re talking about thousands, if you count the layoffs late last year with this round. Didn’t those people have something to offer? Nobody’s taken their place, and as a result, our newspapers are withering. It’s a tough thing to watch, even as a total outsider.
UPDATE: The Enquirer’s editor, Tom Callinan, just tweeted:
tcallinan: Thanks but rather depressing that I have gained 50 followers since layoffs #blackwednesday. I have no more to say.
I’m sure he’s been getting hit pretty hard with the criticism over the last couple days. As much as I criticize the paper, and as much as I feel it deserves the criticism most of the time, I don’t know how ready I am to set Callinan on fire for this one. You know as well as I do that this was handed down from above, and that there wasn’t much he could do about it.
To be sure, the fact remains that those in management and beyond are responsible for the poor overall business choices that’ve ultimately led to this, but in this specific case, I’m not sure that Callinan should be the one on the stake here.
I’ll save my ire for another time. Right now, things are just too fucked to point fingers and squawk like I like to do.
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#blackwednesday was also mentioned this morning on WVXU’s “Impulse Cincinnati” show on social media.
Any word about Patrick Crowley? I sent him a very critical email on Monday about all of the potential stories that the Enquirer has NOT been writing about the KY gambling issue. If he was fired, I hope it wasn’t the last email he read.
I guess their cuts include getting rid of all maps. NKY.com’s front page currently features a story about Marge Schott’s Indian Hill Mansion. Is someone moving it to Campbell Co. or something?
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Mike, though I understand your attempt geographical precision, you must find it ironic that you’re making that comment on a site called The Cincinnati Man, with the heaviest percentage of the staff residing on the K-Y side of the river.
I haven’t seen anything about Patrick Crowley specifically.
As for most of us living in/around NKY… I’m not sure about that. Most, if not all of us, have NKY connections. The great majority of us live a short walk from downtown, I know that. It’s almost like not being in Kentucky!
I kid.