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Home Front: Culture Wars
McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting Staff
2019-02-02
[Miami New Times] This morning, Craig Forman, CEO of McClatchy Company, emailed all staff to say about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's employees would be offered voluntary buyouts. All of the details were not immediately available, though a meeting was called for 2 p.m. today at the Miami Herald ‐ the chain's most significant newspaper ‐ to offer details. "This will be a one-time opportunity," the email reads. "We do not anticipate another."

Forman stresses the buyout is optional. "It is important to us that [employees] are empowered to make the next steps on their career path," he writes, and also references, "driving our company to a functionally based organizational structure in targeted strategic areas." It's unclear what that statement means.
Word Salad = "we're woke and going broke."
Posted by:Frank G

#5  Marketing 101: Make a product people want to buy.
Posted by: Tom   2019-02-02 12:31  

#4   "It is important to us that [employees] are empowered to make the next steps on their career path,"

AKA "Learn to code".
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-02 11:21  

#3  Ten percent staff cuts? It's a start. CNN, MSNBC, and others could go out of business and not be missed.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-02-02 09:59  

#2  Live in a bubble, die in a bubble.

Welcome to the real world. Corporate umbrellas can only protect non-productive elements only so long. No money, no talkie.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-02 09:10  

#1  That's turrible...
Posted by: Charles Barkley   2019-02-02 07:46  

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