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More on the 'LA Times' Staff Chop
by Jeff Bercovici
Jul 03, 2008
Jul 03, 2008
When men plan, God laughs. When men's plans involve the proper staffing level of the Los Angeles Times in an era of industry-wide recession, God guffaws so hard he falls off his chair and lies convulsing on the ground, and maybe loses control of his bladder a little bit.
"When Samuel Zell took control of Tribune in December, he said he did not plan newsroom cuts," recalls The New York Times today. Fast-forward to February, when L.A. Times publisher David Hiller "said he expected to decrease the news staff by 40 to 50 positions." And then fast-forward again to yesterday, when Hiller said, whoops, no, it'll actually be 150 newsroom jobs -- a number that will require layoffs, and not just buyouts, unlike previous rounds of trimming ...
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