file photo by Boyd Loving
September 17,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, for the third time in the 14 months since the Borg family sold the North Jersey Media Group, Gannett has laid off workers .Gannett bought the Newspaper chain for $40 million in July 2016 and according to reports laid off a dozen people or so on Thursday at the Bergen Record and other papers. The Record which is the second-largest daily in the state.
Among those laid off were long time reporter , John Brennan; Heather Zwain, a fashion editor and one of the last full-time edit staffers on 201 Magazine; and two editors, Debra Lynn Vial and Carla Baranauckas.
In the two prior rounds of layoffs a total of 241 people lost their jobs and 20 of North Jersey Media Group’s weekly newspapers were shuttered. Many of the copy editing and production facilities were combined with the Asbury Park Press, which Gannett owned before it added the Bergen Record to its holdings.
The Borg family are liberal progressive socialists except, I’m sure, when it comes to their family fortune.
Their rag of a newspaper and left leaning media empire is going the way of all things socialist.
Down the tubes!
Good riddance.
Deirdre Flannigan Ward was also canned.
Soon there will be nothing left. Good.
Sitting US Senator on trial for bribery and not a peep from that rag.
The paper has taken a nosedive in quality in the last few years. Why not look at the rest of the editorial staff, most particularly the editorial page editor who has aims & goals not in sync with northern NJ. Too bad about Heather Zwain, always looked forward to her cheerful take on some local event in 201. Did cancel the paper recently only because of the reasons mentioned.
Well at least we know of a couple of elected (former and present) officials who “work” for them
9:16 good one
You know I always used to love reading the newspaper. As we all now it’s not 100% true. But at times it was exciting. It’s a shame that this new young generation just don’t care about picking up a newspaper and reading it even if it’s for free. Most of them just surf through their phone see A story that interest them and they may read it. I know some senior citizens still love to read your newspaper or sit on their fat ass and watch channel 12, right , Right. Ha,ha,