What's neither classy is how this individual was laid-off, nor how it was announced. In a "Brief" in last week's Winston-Salem Journal, they report long-time music critic and features writer Ed Bumgardner was laid off, along with a newspaper designer.Sad.
W-S Journal:
Winston-Salem Journal cuts two workers in newsroom
Two journalists in the Winston-Salem Journal's newsroom were let go yesterday as part of the newspaper's cost-cutting moves. One was on the newspaper's design team, whose members create graphics and lay out and design pages. The other was Ed Bumgardner, a longtime music critic and features writer.
Like many newspapers and companies in other industries, the Journal has been trying to reduce costs as revenues drop during an extremely difficult business environment.********************
More coverage from YES! Weekly, Life in Forsyth blog.
This is EXACTLY what we continue to talk about and focus on here at TMW...the localism is disappearing among our local media.
Ed, we wish you the best.
E.C. :)
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It's not disappearing localism causing poor circulation. "it's the content, spin, smear, etc, etc" that's causing print media to fail, and it will continue to fail until those, that steer the ship, get out of denial. Beau
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