Comments on: One Way To Avoid Layoffs: McClatchy To Freeze Wages Companywide http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: found on the web http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62873 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:25:38 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62873 More layoffs are coming to the News & Observer, staffers say (or maybe that should be “reporters report”).

In his weekly meeting with the news staff Wednesday, editor John Drescher told journalists to expect more job cuts to be announced by corporate executives in September. The next day, publisher Orage Quarles told the staff in a company-wide email message that the N&O;was “implementing an across-the-board, one-year wage freeze effective September 1, 2008.” The memo went on to say the pay freeze was being instituted everywhere within McClatchy, the N&O;’s parent company.

Two other bits of information have leaked out of the newsroom recently: First, that the weekly entertainment section What’s Up apparently is headed for extinction; and second, that the N&O;and the Charlotte Observer (also a McClatchy paper) are working on ways to produce a single Sports section and a single Features section for both papers.

]]> By: charlotte pressman http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62872 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:20:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62872 more volentary buy outs on the way at charlotte obs,
this was made by the heads of my department in the pressroom

I have heard that 60 people is the magic number,for the building

]]> By: Greg Kerr http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62871 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:48:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/15/419-this-is-one-way-to-avoid-layoffs-mcclatchy-to-freeze-wages-companywide/#comment-62871 Except, of course, that it won't avoid any layoffs.

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