Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday story about the changes in the Flint Journal
The Sunday Flint Journal had a story on the move to the Rowe building downtown and another story on the layoffs. The story did answer the question about the Muskegon Chronicle layoffs. In the article it was reported that there were layoffs at the Muskegon Chronicle but none that required public reporting.
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Which means before the layoffs, there were fewer than 50 people (advertising, news, photo, sports) left at The Chronicle, right?
They are moving into the ground floor of the new Rowe building.
Which, as I recall, collapsed once before?
Hmmm.
I know the old Journal building has to be expensive to maintain, but if you took out the drop ceilings, that would be a "cool" building, too.
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Hmmm, so now The Journal will be located in the heart of downtown (two blocks from where it was) to make it easier for reporters to be in contact with the community.
Does this mean the former reporters were not in contact with their community since they were two blocks away? Were those reporters who dug and created real stories, not three paragraph reaction pieces, less knowledgeable about their community because of their location?
Good grief....how many times do they move the deck chairs before the bow slips 'neath the icy, cold waters of community content aggregators?
12:55 -- You're spot on. The heart-of-downtown argument is an implied indictment of old-school journalism - that time-honored myth that journalists are "arrogant" and don't connect with real people. My big concern with this rearranging of the deck chairs is that web clicks/advertising will have more say in what "stories" (er, content) make it online. Their job descriptions seem to be pointing that way.
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