<![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> While they re-arrange the deck chairs in first class at the Gray Lady did it occur to anyone that many of these fired employess will end up blogging?

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Here's a pageview for ya, Maggie. Consider it a gratuity from a satisfied reader. Cha-ching!

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: you don't know what the word means, darling.

What you've just said is nonsense.

TheLorax

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BARF

Friends don't fire friends--

Leave that to low-level jerks;

High-priced friends are fixtures--

Fire bottom-feeding clerks.

Leon Freilich

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: Eeeeeh, unless you're talking about Dowd, the Kucz and all the other ones with bloated reps and salaries, I respectfully disagree (says the reporter). The morons running the business end of any paper always think cutting reporters, photogs and desk folk will save money, but without us, how does the news get reported? I'm not saying there needs to be a shit-ton of reporters for every single beat imaginable, but without the reporters and the desk, ya got nothing.

Here's an idea: How about getting rid of all the deputies and other useless layers of middle management?

broad

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> He mentions TWICE that the poor sods getting axed aren't journalists?? It's bad enough that they're getting canned, now they're made to feel inferior to journalists?

Way to kick a secretary while she's down, Bill.

social_crimer

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> "The people who are affected are not journalists"

... that would include any number of people whose bylines currently appear in this formerly great newspaper

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @Wrath of Farrakhan: Aw.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> English Interpretation From Spinswaying; "We've been compassionate long enough of our independent, republican and especially conservative brethren for long enough where we will be actively vesting them from our presence just as our good friends at PBS enforce their agenda...May the door not hit you on your way out.

Thank you and Happy Holidays"

Winghunter

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @artynimue1:
aw yeah, shoot.


fileunder

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: All the more reason to get my sixth grade debate medal out of my parents' house.

Wrath of Farrakhan

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> tsk tsk gawker; leaving the ahot e-mail. Let's SPAM!
newsroom@ahot.nytimes.com
newsroom@ahot.nytimes.com
newsroom@ahot.nytimes.com
newsroom@ahot.nytimes.com
newsroom@ahot.nytimes.com
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BottomOnTop

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @fileunder: "and now i know why"
Maybe they wanted someone who understood capital letters.

artynimue1

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @Paddington: Exactly. The only thing that would have made it redeemable would have been if journalist were affected. That's where they need to cut the fat.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @tammyfey: That makes sense. See, I figured he designed pianos.

@PimpMyCouch: All too well. All too well.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Ah. So he's that guy. You know, that guy?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> "The people who are affected are not journalists, but that does not make this news any easier to share."

Two Americas -- one where journalists don't have to worry about being axed, and the other one.

Paddington

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: He designed the Pompidou Center in Paris with Richard Rodgers. They also did Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music. Or something.

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> They must really be hurting from the lost revenue of those 2,793 erstwhile TimesSelect subscribers.

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @PimpMyCouch: Sorry -- the TimesCenter keeps popping up in one of the magazines I edit for, and it is always referred to as "The New York Times' new Renzo Piano-designed headquarters." As far as who he is beyond the guy who designed the TimesCenter, I have no fucking clue either.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @PimpMyCouch: Isn't this just TimesSpeak for "Dear God, please don't get all hepped up on goofballs and write about this on your newfangled weblogs"? Barn door, say goodbye to that horse. Giddyup.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Great. Where the hell am I going to get a SATC box set?

@BalknChain: Awesome.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Yeah her! It'll be like Jack and Edie Falco on 30 Rock and you'll love it until the sex gets bad.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Erm, at the risk of sounding like a philistine, who's that?

@TheHonJudgeSmails: What is it with you and the Jezebels?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: Me and whom?

If you mean me and this WestVillageGirlOfMyDreams.biz girl: hopefully!

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> true: one month ago Monday, i applied for a web-ish, non-news job at NYT - which was advertised on this very site!
the next day, i had a pre-interview over the phone and was told i'd be hearing from a 'hiring manager' the following week to set up a real interview.
my two emails were never returned, i never heard from anyone, and now i know why.
good work maggie (seriously).




fileunder

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Wow! So are you two gonna make out ?

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: LOLcait is a man

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Ben and Jerry's, copies of Y&M, SATC DVD Box Sets and, oddly, pheromones captured from Sean Hannity's post-workout taint.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Before you think otherwise, I am no feminist/or femilady-whatever

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: Really? Gosh, I had no idea. That crazy Internet.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Do you find minnows or earthworms work better?

@BalknChain: And that word is cute.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @Conbon: meouch

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: FEMILADYISTS! I'm sorry.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: feminist has become a four letter word in some circles

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> [gawker.com]

That should work. Otherwise scroll to the bottom.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge:

Exactly. Everyone can go except for Krugman.

I hope the "little people" enjoyed those spectacular views that were touted in the web feature on the new building.

None of the windows open, right?

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Apparently, feminist-baiting works better than Ben Franklin.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Finding them on me would pose a problem.

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Nope, still bringing up Tionna. She will seriously mess you up too, so you better stop that.

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: I dunno, but let me know if it works, 'cause I've paid good money for that in the past.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: @Conbon: @SinisterRouge: This link should work [gawker.com] .

Should I prepare to be peppered with used tampons on my next trip down Avenue A?

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> The Times is unfortunately a Porto-San. By now it's obvious that you can't believe anything they say. It's a dysfunctional piece of fish wrapping, the journalistic equivalent of the Knicks or the Jets. Good riddance to the whole mess

200motels

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Aah, I see. I poked at you a bit for the tunnel comment (lol), but you my friend have a Jezebel after you.

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: I'm glad you warned me. The last time someone didn't tell me he was following me, I karate'd him in the nuts so hard. It's just instinct.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> The New York Times still says secretarial?

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: I knew I should have held on to that front row seat.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @BalknChain: Heavens, no! Drat.

Not Tionna. Some commenter named WestVillageGirl [gawker.com] who wants me head on a plate because she has a saggy labia.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @Bentpost: She's like that old cougar that just won't put it away. And I want to punch her through the ink when I read "W."

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @DorothyZbornak: Also, I don't know if anyone has heard this, but that new building was designed by Renzo Piano.

@grandmoffbastard: Heard, you idiot.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: hah! Also I am now following you, so don't turn around quickly..

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @Wrath of Farrakhan: Definitely. Mmmm...nerd with a super-nerdy award. Now I'm just waiting for the Nobel.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Tionna?!

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @PimpMyCouch: I don't know if anyone has hear this, but those offices were designed by Renzo Piano.

@BalknChain: The Times reporters are a bunch of liberal troop-haters who aren't going to have anything to do with any kind of army, thank you very much! Also, they don't really like to have contact with poor people.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Tionna?

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @tammyfey: You know, when I heard they were building a new building, I thought, "WHY???" I mean, it's no secret that newspapers are going in the shitter, and the Times is no exception. I understand you might be a little cramped or rodent infested, but seriously, you don't buy a new house when you're about to go on unemployment.

I used to work at a mid-market paper and while the company didn't lay people off, they did reduce our raise percentage to pretty much non-existent. We had a publisher's lunch where the publisher got up and told us this news, along with the fact that we were starting an indefinite hiring freeze. Then the lunch entertainment was one of the ad reps singing "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday." No shit.

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> PS- I love how when Gawker broke the layoffs story a month ago the Times PR bots tried to act like the $14-16 million in staff cuts was just business as usual...

[gawker.com]

And now, like a month later, there are "layoffs in the newsroom, for the first time in recent
memory."

Nothing that comes out of the mouths of those spokespeople has any credibility whatsoever.

supremefiend

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: Or some rum eggnog? Or by setting a small fire in their ex-boss' office?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @tammyfey: SORRY! I meant TammyFey

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: This is an historic day, as I have now agreed with both you AND TammyFay on separate posts.

ALSO: This person is my new nemesis [gawker.com]

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @supremefiend: I heard somewhere that The New York Times is just a fancy blog...

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> It's not like the Times has a new mortgage or anything!

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: Is it the John Bates Clark medal that does it for you?

Wrath of Farrakhan

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: Yes, please fire Dowd. The only thing stopping me from voting for Clinton is the thought of reading Dowd's Clinton bile for four years.

Bentpost

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Take a $10,000 tree for yourself on the way out.

KillMeNow

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @LolCait: Are the mice the special Christmas antlered breed?

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> This is just the beginning of that, what was it, $15 million or so in layoffs they've got planned for the next quarter:

[gawker.com]

What's interesting is that these News Administration folks really serve as the liaisons between the business side and the newsroom. They're the ones who run the cheesy in house newsletter, plan company wide events, and write memos to the newsroom about cost cutting. Basically, they're going to have to administer their own firings. For example, Ellen, who sent around this email about secretaries and "support staff" getting pink slips is Keller's personal secretary.

Who will they have left to spin the next round of layoffs?

Also, The only back end newsroom hiring they've done recently has been to get people to help improve the web site. Freezes and firings are going to hit them right in the Nets. I'd say that's a pretty big deal, because aside from the ad revenue for the glossies, growing online revenue is supposed to be the lone bright spot in their financials right?

supremefiend

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Well there is no place like home (in your pajamas, at 1:30 PM, with no food in the kitchen, and the electricity turned off) for the holidays.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @grandmoffbastard: or by giving them a Salvation Army plastic mesh stocking-empty

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Yes! Agreed.

@Wrath of Farrakhan: Gotta keep Krugman. I love his liberal nerdy bearded ass.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Pfft, lay-offs. At least "Online Journalism" is still a viable option--especially at $4.16 an hour! Whew! Now to get back to my side-gig at Staples.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @PimpMyCouch: It's to encourage the reporters to comfort the afflicted. You know, with a warm handshake or hug or some shit.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> I love how they mention eighty times that it's not the journalists that are being laid off. I know it was sent to the newsroom, but still. "We're laying people off right before Christmas, but it's only the little people whom no one notices! You guys are safe! Pass the nog!"

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @George Walter Vincent Smith: So they don't have to pay an X-mas bonus

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Nice timing. Merry Christmas -- and here is your pink slip!

darina

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge, @TheHonJudgeSmails: Throw in Krugman and Bob Herbert and you have a deal. The editorial page wouldn't even have to change: just re-run columns from the archives with new, generic titles. Ex: Men are Awful, Lying Sacks of Shit, by Maureen Dowd, and An Apology for Whatever the Administration Is Doing That's Bad, by David Brooks.

Wrath of Farrakhan

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> What I find funny is that the email came from Ellen Kavier, Keller's personal secretary. Clearly HER job's not in jeopardy...

Also...can he not send emails himself?

baronessvonsnarky

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> All the company layoff announcements are coming at such an opportune time this year. Nothing says relaxing over the holidays like worrying about losing your job.

Ed

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> It's better than the lump of coal the NY Times gave ME for Christmas.

collegecallgirl

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: ...and his dopey wife.

NinaHagen

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> They buried the lede.

AlllRight

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> @SinisterRouge: And Frank Rich.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Fortunately, it's not like this is a critical time for American journalism.

Anyway, I hope someone higher up has to wait a few months before they get a gold-plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, at least.

moff

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> "Fill their positions internally" = more ways the NYT is like Craigslist casual encounters.

Wrath of Farrakhan

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> They've trained the mice how to type and file and work for less.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA['Times' Announces Newsroom Layoffs]]> Can't they just save $ by firing Maureen Dowd and David Brooks?

SinisterRouge

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