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Showing posts with label Newspapers Baltimore Sun Massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers Baltimore Sun Massacre. Show all posts

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Owner of the Baltimore Sun, Tribune plans $16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

Tribune plans $16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

Wed May 26, 2010 Total program less than originally proposed By Tom Hals

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2621196520100526

WILMINGTON, Del., May 26 (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Tribune Co plans to pay top managers $16.2 million in bonuses and incentives when it exits bankruptcy under its plan of reorganization, according to court documents.

About $10.3 million of the payments will go to the company's top 20 managers for hitting the top of the company's 2009 cash flow projections, according to documents filed on Monday in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court.

The company, which owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times as well as radio and television businesses, also plans to pay $4.6 million to 19 managers that head the company's operating units, based on last year's performance.
Five of those managers are also getting bonus payments under the cash flow-based program.

The company has been operating in bankruptcy since 2008 and has enjoyed a rebound with the stabilizing economy. Only two managers of operating units will not receive a bonus payment for the 2009 performance.

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Read the entire story here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2621196520100526

20100526 Tribune plans 16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

"Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

"Telling Our Stories" The Days of the Baltimore Sun

http://wbng.org/stories/index.html

In the spring of 2009, The Baltimore Sun laid off about 60 people, including about a third of the newsroom staff.

This Web site records the bittersweet memories of many of those people. Some recall the pain of being fired; others the challenges, joys and spirit of newspaper work.

I particularly appreciated the following vignettes:

Behind the lens
The stories behind the pictures By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing wit...

'You have a minute?'
'You have a minute?' By Danielle Bradley I never thought that I would be present for my own funeral. But it happened. April 29, 2009, in the middle of The Baltimore Sun newsroom. It was in the air. ...

Lopossay bio
Monica Lopossay Daughter of a truck driver and a mill worker, Monica Lopossay grew up in rural North Carolina. At 16, she raised enough money to buy her first camera by dressing in a 20-pound chicken ...

Behind the lens, page 2
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 3
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

Behind the lens, page 4
> By Monica Lopossay I love sharing stories, but I'm not a writer. I usually tell stories with my photographs or orally. Nonetheless, here are a few stories dealing with things that happened behind m...

For other stories click on:

Steve Auerweck

Paul Bendel-Simso

Chiquita Bolden-Heath

Danielle Bradley

Phyllis Brill

Tyeesha Dixon

Doug Donovan

Deborah Lakowicz- Dramby

Ray Frager

Patrick Gutierrez

Beth Hughes

Fe Fung Hung

Doug Kapustin

Chiaki Kawajiri

Jiho Kim

Fay Lande

Linda L. Linley

Monica Lopossay

Elizabeth Malby

John E. McIntyre

Sandra Nash

Rashod D. Ollison

Ebony Page-Harvey

Alan Perry

Gene Russell

Denise Sanders

Norine Schiller

Franz Schneiderman

Matt Tustison

Charles H. Weiss

Linda White


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Thursday, May 07, 2009

John McIntyre has left the building


May 7, 2009


Photo credit: Jerry Jackson of The Sun. Courtesy of John McIntyre, “You Don’t Say.” From his post published on Saturday, May 2, 2009, “Many kindnesses.” http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/05/many-kindnesses.html

John McIntyre has sealed his predecessor's ashes in an egg of myrrh.

“You Don’t Say” by John E. McIntyre has left the building…

May 7, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff


This past weekend, I stumbled upon this photo of John McIntyre leaving the byzantine denizens of Calvert Street, pushing a shopping cart. It was upsetting. However, ever the class act, his post which accompanied the photo was uplifting.

For those who are in temporary withdrawal as a result of the untimely demise of “You Don’t Say,” by John E. McIntyre; let not your heart be heavy or allow your possessives with a gerund grind to a halt.

If you will recall, Mr. McIntyre, the author of the aforementioned feature in “The Sun,” was recently unshackled from the challenges of his employment interfering with his life.

Yes, gentile readers, Mr. McIntyre has been visited upon by the spirit of Zell, who set fire to his “nest of aromatic boughs and spices.”

As with the mythological ancient Egyptian bird, he has “sealed its predecessor's ashes in an egg of myrrh and flew to Heliopolis to deposit them on the altar of the sun god.”

If this has either affected – or effected – you, mosey on over to his new cubicle at “You Don’t Say,” on blogger: http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/.

News of the rebirth of “You Don’t Say” spread quickly among those of us who are, in particular, in constant need of a copy editor (such as me – or is it such as myself?)

Mr. McIntyre confidently wrote in “Turning the page,” on Thursday, April 30, 2009, “I’m back, and I do not intend to go away.”

At that I joined the collective sigh of relief… Please join me in welcoming Mr. McIntyre to the dark side…

And oh, if you should happen to feel the need to correspond with Mr. McIntyre, always use spel chek.

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.” — Christina Baldwin

~ Kevin Dayhoff http://www.kevindayhoff.com/


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PS: For all those who have asked me to write more about the Sun Massacre; no thanks. The last time I checked, I still work for the Baltimore Sun Media Group and I would like to continue…

Photo credit: Jerry Jackson of The Sun. Courtesy of John McIntyre, “You Don’t Say.” From his post published on Saturday, May 2, 2009, “Many kindnesses.” http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/05/many-kindnesses.html

20090507 SDOSM John McIntyre has left the building

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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Sun cuts 27 percent of newsroom by Andy Rosen Daily Record

Baltimore Sun cuts 27% of newsroom

ANDY ROSEN

Daily Record Business Writer

April 29, 2009

The Baltimore Sun has laid off 61 newsroom employees this week, in a round of job cuts that has claimed some of the longest tenured journalists at the paper.

The Sun Wednesday confirmed the number of layoffs, but did not provide a breakdown of what positions were affected. Officials with the Baltimore-Washington Newspaper Guild said that 40 newsroom members were losing their jobs — one voluntarily. Those reductions were in addition to at least 18 top and mid-level editors, and three others, who were laid off.

The reductions amount to about 27 percent of the Sun’s newsroom staff, according to the guild, hitting several long-tenured editors, photographers, designers and other staff.

“People are devastated,” said Gus Sentementes, a guild mobilizer in the newsroom and a general assignment reporter, who said these were some of the most severe reductions in memory. “We are changing the way we do our work.” Sentementes will remain on staff, he said.

The magnitude of the reductions left many wondering whether they’d be able to recognize the Sun in coming days and months.

Publisher Timothy E. Ryan and Editor J. Montgomery Cook did not respond to calls seeking comment Wednesday. Spokeswoman Renee Mutchnik confirmed that the paper had informed the guild of layoffs.

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The Sun is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., which filed for bankruptcy in December.

[…]

People who were in the newsroom Wednesday described an emotional scene, with staff members being called into offices to get the news that their jobs were gone.

Bill Wachsberger, a designer who was laid off Wednesday, said staff members had widely anticipated the job reductions and the atmosphere was tense when he arrived around 1:45 p.m. At 2 p.m., management began informing employees.

“You could hear a pin drop in the newsroom,” he said.

[…]

Eileen Canzian, a metro desk editor who was laid off Tuesday, said she was glad to have spent 30 years at the Sun, but wonders what it will look like in the future. She said the cuts severely reduced the number of editors on the metro desk.

“When I realized that they felt that they didn’t need my skills anymore, I thought, ‘Well, the paper’s in a new place, and that is a very sad place,’” Canzian said. “I feel even worse for the young people who didn’t get to spend their lives doing this.”

The Baltimore Sun Media Group has also made cuts in the past few weeks to many of the newspapers it owns throughout Central Maryland in its Patuxent Publishing chain. Last week, the Northeast Booster in Perry Hall and the Northeast Reporter in Parkville said they would combine and publish as a monthly paper. Both outlets had been weeklies. The Owings Mills Times and the North County News in Baltimore County will shift to monthly production as well.

The company has also stop publishing the Eldersburg Eagle in Carroll County, which came out on Wednesdays, and will combine some of its elements into the Sunday Carroll Eagle.

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Read the entire story here: Sun cuts 27 percent of newsroom by Andy Rosen Daily Record

20090429 Sun cuts 27 percent of newsroom by Andy Rosen Daily Record

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=11400&type=UTTM

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Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild release: More cuts at the Baltimore Sun

Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild release

Poynter Online Poynter Forums

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Topic:
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Date/Time: 4/29/2009 4:50:47 PM
Title: More cuts at the Baltimore Sun
Posted By: Jim Romenesko


For more information go to Poynter Online
http://www.poynter.org/

Newspaper Guild release

http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13920

TRIBUNE CO. ANNOUNCES PLANS TO LAYOFF 27 PERCENT OF THE BALTIMORE SUN’S NEWSROOM STAFF, INCLUDING FOUR COLUMNISTS

Layoff notices comes as Tribune slashes 18 senior editors and newsroom managers on Tuesday and Wednesday without warning.

BALTIMORE, Md., April 29, 2009 – Members of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild said yesterday that Tribune Co. is bent on gutting what was once one of America’s great newspapers after 40 newsroom employees, or 20 percent of the staff, received layoff notices yesterday.

The move comes a day after Tribune fired 18 senior editors and newsroom managers on Tuesday and Wednesday without warning. Many of the editors and managers, who are not members of the newspaper guild, were ushered out of the newsroom by security guards.

“Tribune, through careless management practices, has saddled itself under $13 billion in debt and now Baltimore is paying a price,” said Cet Parks, Executive Director of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. “Tribune is siphoning good jobs from Baltimore and sending work that talented editors, reporters, photographers, copy editors and designers have done here to its home base in Chicago. That is not right.”

Tribune plans to lay off the 40 newsroom employees by May 27. Targeted employees, who include four columnists, photographers, critics and copy editors, received hand delivered letters Wednesday afternoon signed by Monty Cook, senior vice president and editor. Also, in the last two weeks The Sun has laid off seven employees in other departments including advertising and customer service.

Since Tribune acquired The Sun in 1999, the newsroom staff has been cut by more than 60 percent to currently 148 employees from roughly 420.

"While we understand that media companies, especially newspapers, are reeling from declining advertising revenue, shrinking circulation and a year-and-a-half of recession, we believe Baltimore needs a metropolitan paper that covers the important events in the region,” said Angela Kuhl, Guild Unit Chair who works at The Sun. “It is imperative that Baltimore maintains a newspaper that brings people news, exciting and provocative stories and enriches the lives of all who live here.”

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20090429 Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild release

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Layoffs at The Sun

Layoffs at The Sun

According to “various tribune employee reports and blogs,” the following employees have lost their jobs…

If you read this list and you see an error – or where an addition or a correction is warranted – e-mail me right away at kevindayhoff AT gmail DOT com with the word - Sun Mass – in the subject line.

If you are on this list and you wish to have your name removed for any reason – no questions asked – e-mail me at kevindayhoff AT gmail DOT com with the word - Sun Massacre – in the subject line.

However, think about, your name is already “out there”… I did a lot of thinking before I posted this and the bottom line is “we” in the journalism community can not help find jobs for “our” colleagues if we do not know you may looking for a job.

If you are like me - - I can no more stop writing than I can stop breathing…

Two quotes come to mind:

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.” Tennessee Williams

“Without writing I have no doubt I would turn into a basketcase.” Roy Meachum August 8, 2008 “Greasepaint Missing.”

Editors:
Paul Moore, Deputy Managing Editor
Ann LoLordo, Opinion Editor
Larry Williams, Deputy Opinion Editor
Patricia Fanning, Education Editor
John McIntyre, Copy Desk Chief
Ray Frager, sports editor
George VanDaniker, sports editor
Eileen Canzian, metro editor
Steve Auerweck, Systems Editor
Jay Apperson, Regional Editor
Chuck Weiss, Photo Assigning Editor
Andrew Ratner, features editor and blogging columnist
Bernie Kohn, the investigative team's editor

Bureau Chiefs
Joe DeCarlo
Dan Clemens
Bill Caulfield

Columnists and critics:
Rashod Ollison, music critic
Rick Maese, sports columnist
Bill Ordine, sports columnist
David Steele, sports columnist

Photographers:
Liz Malby
Glenn Fawcett
Chiaki Kawajiri
Monica Lopossay
Doug Kapustin
Glenn Fawcett

Designers:
Bill Wachsberger
Tracey Dieter
Carrie Lyle
Shirdell MacDonald

Copy desk:
Todd Windsor, designer/copy editor

Editorial Assistants:
Ellie Baublitz, editorial assistant
Makeda Crane, editorial assistant for opinion section
Fay Lande

Library staff:
Phyllis Kisner

This list is by no means complete.

If you wish your name added, e-mail me at kevindayhoff AT gmail DOT com with the word - Sun Mass – in the subject line.

Now let’s find jobs for everyone one this list.

20090429 Layoffs at the Sun

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