Media Bloodletting
As Pro writes this, a major massacre is taking place at one of the nation’s largest media companies. This is truly sad. I got my start in journalism with Gannett back in the early 1980s, first as a summer intern for a Florida daily (I actually got paid and received college credit for the gig), then as a staff reporter for my hometown paper in New Jersey.
Estimates are that 3,000 folk, about 10 percent of Gannett’s newspaper employees, are getting pink slips. The cuts were announced in late October.
This is why I could no longer do newspapers even if I wanted to.
