Shakeup at the Tribune-Review; layoffs expected (Scaife's Newspapers)

[RamboLiberal]

Mods I truncated the headline to fit in Scaife's name

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05020/445110.stm

The Tribune-Review Publishing Co. yesterday announced sweeping changes in its management structure, essentially reducing four of its six newspapers to large news bureaus and shifting their management, editing and design to offices of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Employees at the company's onetime flagship paper, the Tribune-Review of Greensburg, said they were told to expect layoffs there as editing of that newspaper moves from its offices on Cabin Hill Drive in Greensburg to the Clark Building on Pittsburgh's North Side.

"They told us point-blank that there would be layoffs," said one employee at the Greensburg Tribune-Review who, like others, asked not to be identified. Workers at all of the affected papers said they were told the layoffs would hit every one of the company's daily publications, including Pittsburgh.

On Tuesday, Tom Stewart, the editor of the Greensburg Tribune-Review, announced that he was leaving the paper, the first signal of the management shakeup that insiders said they expect to continue for several weeks.

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One mid-level editor said."For years we financed their shenanigans in Pittsburgh and now they've turned on us," he said.

[tabasco]

1. Good I hope the propaganda rag goes bankrupt. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

2. Same here - I'd love to see Scaife go bankrupt

or meet his counterpart in Hades.

[MADem]

3. Their work is done, the coup is complete

...so now they can be kicked to the curb with the rest of the trash.

Loyalty counts for nothing with this crew. You lie down with dogs, you get up unemployed, with fleas...

[UL_Approved]

4. What becomes of laying off journalists?

When you systematically remove journalists and librarians and teachers and other people in the business of information, what happens when you lay off the masses? Do these guys really understand the consequences?

I guess that if the RW is gutting and restructuring the media, their plot has to start some time.

For the rest of us, what do we do to combat this effect? How can people stand up to a hostile state-run press? Any idea? :shrug: