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Verizon Brags About Plan to Cut Thousands More Jobs

Jenn Ettinger — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:32:20 -0400

WASHINGTON – This week, on Verizon’s quarterly earnings conference call, Chief Financial Officer John F. Killian announced plans to cut tens of thousands more jobs at the company: "I mentioned on previous calls the last couple of years we’ve reduced our wireline work force by about 13,000 per year, and I said we would do the same this year.

Journalists Losing Jobs Three Times More than Average Workers

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:55:49 -0400

Full article: Editor & Publisher
Mark Fitzgerald
Since the financial meltdown began a year ago, journalism jobs have gone away at almost three times the rate jobs have disappeared in the general economy, according to a report by Unity: Journalists of Color.

Speeding Up the Internet Could Create Thousands of Jobs

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:54:55 -0400

Full article: ChannelWeb
Jennifer Bosavage
For every $5 billion invested in United States broadband infrastructure, 97,500 new jobs in the telecom, computer and IT sectors will be created, according to a study by the Communications Workers of America.

Speed Up the Internet and Watch the Economy Grow

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:48:03 -0500

Full article: Detroit Free Press
Mark T. Ansboury
To understand what a fully developed, mega-speed communications system can do for our economy, think of what the Interstate highway system did for commerce in the 1950s. Leadership in building out an "Internet highway" could create jobs now and for decades to come.

Inside Tribune Newsrooms, Assurances of 'Business as Usual' -- as Outsiders Worry that More Trouble Will Follow

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:12:34 -0500

Full article: Editor & Publisher
Mark Fitzgerald and Jennifer Saba
As word of Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy filing reached the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> newsroom, there were constant reassurances from management that things sounded worse than they are. "They’re telling us, it’s business as usual," said one journalist.

AT&T Lays Off 12,000

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:58:39 -0500

Full article: CNet
Margaret Kane
AT&T joined the long list of companies laying off workers, announcing that it would eliminate 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4 percent of its workforce.

Ten Ways to Keep a Newspaper Strong

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:39:11 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Deborah Howell
In these seriously tight times, the most important thing a newspaper company can do is to ensure that cuts do not damage the paper's quality in the eyes of readers. Here are ten suggestions for the <em>Post</em> and its readers.

Guild Claims 500 AP Staffers Signed Petition Against Contract Proposal

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:33 -0500

Full article: Editor & Publisher
Joe Strupp
The Associated Press' largest union claims that more than 500 AP employees have signed a petition "urging the company to reverse course in contract talks … saying the company's bargaining stance threatens quality journalism."

Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:31 -0500

Full article: New York Times
David Carr
Newspapers are laying off employees in record numbers, many of them important, trusted names. It is not the young fresh faces that are getting whacked — they come cheap — but the most experienced, proven people in the room. As a result, newspapers may end up just another part of the underinformed commodity of clutter.

Bloodletting in the Newsrooms

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:18:06 -0500

Full article: StopBigMedia.com
Joe Torres
Across the country, newspapers are trying to maintain their high profit margins by slashing newsroom jobs and news coverage. That's because the majority of newspapers are publicly traded companies for which any decline in profits is unacceptable, and they're trying to please their Wall Street investors.