By Associated Press September 14 at 2:59 PM
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Gannett is laying off more than 100 employees at a New Jersey media company it recently purchased.
A company executive said Wednesday the layoffs are needed to improve the financial sustainability of the North Jersey Media Group, which publishes The Record, NorthJersey.com and other newspapers.
The McLean, Virginia-based Gannett purchased the news organization in July.
Tom Donovan, northeast regional president of Gannett East Group, said layoff notices will go out to 426 of the company’s employees this week. Among these, he said, more than 200 newsroom employees and about 60 in sales will remain with the company. Donovan declined to say how many people the company employs.
The layoff notices are required under state and federal law when a private company plans wide-scale layoffs.
Donovan said the changes are part of “an ambitious new reinvention” to make its newsroom and sales department more responsive to digital demands.
He said the company will invest in new equipment and “transform our strategy to better serve the sophisticated and increasingly digitally minded New Jersey audience and advertisers.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/gannett-laying-off-more-than-100-at-new-jersey-news-group/2016/09/14/39f4ab56-7a9f-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_story.html
They are actually laying off more than 200; half of the 426 current employees will be getting pink slips. The editorial staff will be cut from over 300 to 190.
Buddy of mine works there. Hope he’s not impacted.
Wow…a real drive-by media wipeout…trying hard to shed a tear…wait for it…wait for it…nah. I got nothin’. Sorry, biased abusers of the first amendment–no sympathy is forthcoming. Did you ever care about actual facts, and reasonable inferences therefrom, or was it always about manipulating public opinion, and punishing your domestic political enemies, perceived or real? If the latter, it’s a wonder you lasted as long as you did. RIPperoni!
12:43. “Biased abusers of the first amendment”. LOL. What do you mean “abusers”. You mean “protected by”? You do understand how the first amendment works, right? Just because a media outlet chooses to show a situation through a less than favorable lens (from your perspective) doesn’t mean they are “abusing” the first amendment. Well, you can’t really write, so I guess you never really grasped the US Constitution, either. Not many of your type do.
I’m sure they’re keeping the hard core radicals…
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Abusing the First Amendment
Hugh Hewitt enumerates the multiple ways that the Los Angeles Times needs to get its story straight — and illustrates just how unaware some of its top leadership is of relevant precedents that weaken their baldfaced assertions of right, nay, obligation, to publish a story about a classified program that was, by all accounts, effective, lawfully administered, and the product of consultations with Congress.
But ignorance about the First Amendment and press rights is, apparently, widespread. In a debate this morning on St. Louis’ 97.1 FM morning show, a lefty tried to assert that James Madison had written into the Constitution a right for the press to publish stories that cripple national security efforts.
Nothing could be further from the case. In fact, as Professor John Eastman pointed out yesterday on Hugh Hewitt’s show, if one examines the structure of the First Amendment, it secures “freedom of speech and of the press.” That means that American citizens — all of us, equally, not some more than others — have the right to speak in dissent from our government, and to put our dissent in writing.
But like most other rights, it’s not absolute. Chief Justice Hughes pointed out in 1931 that the government could certainly prevent publication of information like “the number and location of troops.” The information that the Times splashed across its front page was similarly classified, and similarly important.
Indeed, Professor John Eastman noted in his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the Supreme Court has, in fact, conceded that prior restraints on publication of sensitive classified information are permissible.
It strikes me that the newspapers themselves and the lefties who are defending them have forgotten one essential point: That the purpose of the First Amendment was to protect the American people from a tyrannical and abusive government. Here, the papers have achieved almost the complete opposite: They have taken it upon themselves to inform the enemy of a non-abusive and effective government program for protecting the country, thereby exposing the American people to a greater risk of harm. So who’s tyrannical and abusive now?
Carol Platt Liebau at 8:28 AM
1:57 “But like most other rights, it’s not absolute.” Lol so we’re good on some form of gun control, right? And false equivalence is false. Show me where The Record put my security at risk by going after the Bridgegate story, and I’ll give you a pass. The fact is, politicians playing with our quality of life for their own political gain happens all the time. But when it’s so blatant, it needs to be chased down. I don’t care which party does it…I can just as easily see a NJ Dem pulling this stunt. If you’re ok with being butt raped by politicians as long as they’re Republicans, I have to ask what’s wrong with you. And by the way, I can use google all by myself. You don’t need to copy pasta for me. Thanks!
(Comment on press bias during George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case)
Uncle Samuel | June 9, 2013 at 7:51 am
Freedom comes with responsibility and danger of abuse.
The press can be used to shape and manipulate elections, poison candidates, or tell outright lies when it is owned by foreign and domestic powers with specific agendas. When it acts as ABC did this week and has at other times during the FL case, the press is abusing the First Amendment.
Headlines, stories, the tone of voice and facial expressions of newscasters, or no stories, in effect, silencing truth are being used to sway public opinion, elections, and legal matters.
This is the dirty side of the First Amendment coin.
MARK LEVIN: The FCC, call it whatever you want, Barack Obama’s henchman, Barack Obama’s comrades, there, that’s right, all over the federal government have hijacked the institutions of government and are now turning them on the people. Whether it’s the EPA, or the Department of Justice, the Interior Department, NOAA, this, that or the other, they’re using the government, they are using a law against us. Which is the definition of tyranny.
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They have abused the First Amendment with wiretaps, and other forms of government action against the media in this country and the media in this country apparently is sadistic. As long as their guy is doing it, well then, do it. So the media in this country no longer stands for free anything. Free speech, free press, any of it. It is the Praetorian guard media — as I’ve been saying for years — protecting this president, protecting his ideology because the people in the media, for the most part, are of the same ilk.
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No respect for the rule of law. No respect for the constitution. Now they’ll use those things to attack Republican presidents, but they don’t give a damn about it when it comes to a radical leftist like Obama. And so it is necessary to remind ourselves who we are, what our power is, what our heritage is as we fight what is increasingly the battle that the Framers fought against tyranny. (Mark Levin Show, February 20, 2014)
Evan Prest says:
June 2, 2016 at 4:13 AM
The press is a group of corporations, run by elites, to promote agenda.
They are not a free press. They lie with impunity, and abuse the first
amendment.
2:22, 2:31, 2:43, Mister Copypasta, can you please demonstrate how The Record’s Bridgegate coverage abused the 1st amendment. Be specific, and show your work. If you are just going to continue to post generalizations and opinions from sundry pundits, don’t bother. You are not bringing anything new to the table: you are just perpetuating the echo chamber. And I note that the material you choose to defend your position (and the remarkable amount of time it seems to take for you to resource it) isn’t flattering your intellect in the least.
Since when did 12:43pm say anything about The Record abusing the first amendment with its coverage of Bridgegate? Are we a little touchy, 3:55pm? The major media outlets uphold their purpose in this world when they report true facts, when they occur, and make a decent effort to separate fact reporting from opinions and editorializing. A bias is fine, if it is notorious. But a biased media outlet that actively claims or holds itself out as non-partisan displays mendacity and abuses the first amendment. Usually, when this occurs, the media outlet in question is carrying out the ideological agenda of a wealthy member of the elitist D.C. Uniparty (e.g. Bezos, Carlos Slim, etc., even big establishment Republican donors are guilty of abusing the press franchise in this manner).
The free market at work. That’s all.
A newspaper catering to liberals shouldn’t be surprised revenue is down – their target audience expects it to be free.
The Borg Family Legacy and the fruit of the Borg Family’s liberal, progressive bias…
I feel bad for the non editorial employees but when you make a deal with the devil you might get burned…
It’s a left,wing biased rag. They feature constant opinions from their other left wing writers from other papers, nobody cares about that propaganda.
Friend of the People it Serves…..if you live in Englewood, Teaneck and Hackensack.
They had it coming…..