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Home Front: Culture Wars
NY Times to make more cuts in newsroom staff
2017-06-01

Couldn't happen to a more deserving newsroom.
The New York Times Co. NYT, +0.00% on Wednesday offered buyouts aimed at cutting the number of editors in the newsroom.
It's not like all those layers of editing ever caught any of the deliberate errors of fact and interpretation anyway, and NYT journalists are hired with high level grammar and spelling skills, so the cost savings is easy.
In a memo to staff, Executive Editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joseph Kahn said the paper's current system of two separate groups of editors performing different tasks would be replaced with one group of editors responsible for all aspects, according to the Times. "Our goal is to significantly shift the balance of editors to reporters at the Times, giving us more on-the-ground journalists developing original work than ever before," they wrote in the memo. According to the memo, reporters and other staffers in the newsroom are free to apply for the buyout. The number of positions targeted was not revealed.

The Times hopes the buyout will let it hire 100 additional journalists, it said. Also on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported that the paper would be eliminating its public-editor role. That position, currently held by a former Washington Post managing editor, Elizabeth Spayd, was created to hold the paper accountable after the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal in 2003.

The news comes a day after the Times announced it was establishing a "reader center" to improve engagement with its readers. Shares of New York Times Co. were down less than 1% shortly before noon on Wednesday. Shares have gained more than 31% in 2017 and more than 44% over the past 12 months, while the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.05% is up nearly 8% in the year and 15% in the last 12 months.
Posted by:badanov

#5  What do they need editors and reporters for since they just parrot the Democrat talking points?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-01 15:55  

#4  "Our goal is to significantly shift the balance of editors to reporters at the Times, giving us more on-the-ground journalists developing original work than ever before,"

So more people to develop more works of fiction? What ever happened to true reporting?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-06-01 10:28  

#3  NYT journalists are hired with high level grammar and spelling skills

So, they're being replaced by AIs?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-01 09:05  

#2  Also on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported that the paper would be eliminating its public-editor role. That position, currently held by a former Washington Post managing editor, Elizabeth Spayd, was created to hold the paper accountable after the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal in 2003.

"After further review, we decided we are never wrong. So the position is not needed"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-06-01 07:18  

#1  I can dream . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2017-06-01 01:55  

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