News from the Northern Piedmont and fresh from rumor-ville...apparently the Media General-owned Danville Register & Bee is in serious trouble. A blogger reports that the entire paper may fold as soon as the first of the month.Excerpt from this post:
The newsroom hasn't been shuffled around yet, but since some editing is going to India, obits and ads are in Lynchburg and now the newspaper layout itself is in Lynchburg as of April 1, 2009 (not a joke), pretty soon we'll all have to go to Lynchburg to read the Danville News!May have something to do with this bit of news broken earlier in the week from Winston-Salem Journal editor Ken Otterbourg about the reorganization of Media General (see their corporate spin here).
Maybe the NORTHERN end of the county will finally get some coverage now that the Danville paper is mostly stationed in Lynchburg eh?
We'll be watching.
E.C. :)
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3 comments:
Indian editors. That really chafes my hide.
I can think of stronger language, but I'm trying to clean up my vocabulary a bit. Danville has some of the highest unemployment rates in the Commonwealth of Virginia and you tell me you won't even try to find any freelancers to do editing? What the hell is M-G doing?
Are you sure that isn't "graphics editors/artists" and not story editors?
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