This news story about the new Kalamazoo "hub" (this would be the new name for a newspaper office) is probably the first of many such articles around the state. I have a favorite paragraph (actually two) but I'll reserve them until I see what your favorites are.
Still no transparency on how many of the "77 laid off employees" will be included in the new hub.
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this line says it all...
Walls that currently separate the news and advertising staffs at the Gazette will no longer exist, allowing employees to more easily interact with each other and exchange ideas.
My fave: "Walls that currently separate the news and advertising staffs at the Gazette will no longer exist, allowing employees to more easily interact with each other and exchange ideas."
It's a gem of a story, all right. One missing piece of information: the publisher who is quoted high in the story is among those being laid off.
Yep, that was my favorite line out of the thing too: "Walls that currently separate the news and advertising staffs at the Gazette will no longer exist, allowing employees to more easily interact with each other and exchange ideas."
And they present that as if that's a GOOD idea. The whole reason for the wall to begin with was to keep the integrity of the news operation from being a journalism-for-sale operation. Guess that's out the window now.
Anyone know what is happening with the newer M.A.N. Roland printing press in Kalamazoo now that the building is for sale? Maybe its already gone, I don't know.
I was part of the last round of layoffs there in early 2010. I worked in the press room and worked real hard on the transition and the six years after that we produced on that beautiful machine. I just can't believe it is gonna be scrap. The building addition and press were somewhere around 30 million just a few years ago. What a waste.
I'm just venting a bit. Hearing that The Gazette is leaving all that wonderful German machinery behind re-opened a feeling or two I had when I got layed off.
Unexpectedly, it still hurts a year and a half later.
Stephanak said, "This is our new home. People buy a home to build a family and that's what we are doing.”
Buy a home? The lead specifically says, "The lease was signed Thursday."
Sounds a bit more temporary than a "buy," doesn't it?
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