Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Chronicling the decline
Posted By Ryan Burns @RyanBurnsy on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM
More troubling news in newspaper-land: The
San Francisco Chronicle
may be
at death's door
, judging from a memo sent to employees this morning, which reads in part,
Despite all of our best efforts as an organization, The Chronicle continues to show staggering losses each week.
The organization's new plan of attack? Better efforts, including "a significant reduction in force across all areas of our operation," i.e. more layoffs.
If we are unable to accomplish these reductions in the immediate future, Hearst Corporation, which owns The Chronicle, has informed us that it will offer the newspaper for sale or close it altogether.
The 144-year-old Chronicle currently has a news staff of around 275. A Bay Area blog (grumble, grumble) speculates that Hearst could be at least partially bluffing in an attempt to "strong-arm the union."
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Ryan Burns worked for the Journal from 2008 to 2013, covering a diverse mix of North Coast subjects, from education, politics and marijuana to human suspension, sex parties and amateur fight contests. He won awards for investigative reporting, feature stories and news coverage.
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