freefromeditors: New Orleans dumps Advance template in response to complaints

Thursday, August 2, 2012

The New Orleans news site has listened to its consumers and redesigned its website.

Anonymous said...: Another painful decision was to reduce the overall newspaper staff. We focused our cutbacks in the areas of production and editing rather than front-line reporting. Indeed we still have as many professional journalists in Michigan, out in the community covering local news, sports, business and culture, as we had before these changes were announced. That allows us to continue our commitment to investigative reporting as well as breaking news.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/business-news/183948/steve-newhouse-explains-michigan-transition-times-picayune-future/

Really? Really? Really? "We focused our cutbacks in the areas of production and editing rather than front-line reporting."

Can he count? Have you seen the number of reporters in the FJ now compared to 2008?

"Indeed we still have as many professional journalists in Michigan, out in the community covering local news, sports, business and culture, as we had before these changes were announced."

WTH? Is he using some kind of new math that I've never heard of?

Jim does anybody have these numbers? How many reporting jobs were lost in the cuts made at the 8 former Boothie papers? And how many reporters work there now? Do freelance and contract reporters count? There's no sports, no "culture" and I haven't seen a business section in three years.; 05 August, 2012 18:50

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