No one's safe ...
It's a sad, sad day when having a Pulitzer Prize on your resumé can't safeguard your job.
On Thursday, the Chicago Tribune cut 20 more staffers (now 200 in the past year, or one-third of its editorial staff), including two - TWO! - Pulitzer Prize winners. (see here)
If that doesn't depress you, well ... you're too dang chipper for this economy. Or you don't work in news.
To put it in Laramie terms, winning a WPA Pacemaker Award or being an employee of the year (gulp) won't guarantee you anything, either.
Would you like fries with that?
1 comment:
Without going into too much detail, the axe fell in my company on some of the people that have been here the longest, most experienced, most loyal, etc.
They used up all of the goodwill that they've been building up for years, and then some.
As for newspapers, they need to change their distribution models FAST in order to be relevant these days. Especially major papers. (Local papers I think have a little more wiggle room, but not a lot.)
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