Comments on: Arizona Republic says it laid off 100 people this week

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:55:37 +0000

Actually Nick, AZ Republic is still making a profit. However, it's just not enough for “Gannett”.

Thank you for acknowledging the other 80+ people who have been laid off.

By: Nick R. Martin

Nick R. Martin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:39:43 +0000

@Cheryl: Your experience is so telling, and I'm sure common, too. Managers of newspapers were able for so long to neglect the cares of the community because the papers were still making huge profits. Now when they're suffering, they wondered what happened.

By: Nick R. Martin

Nick R. Martin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:35:18 +0000

@anonymous: You're right. The 80 other people who got fired outside the newsroom are just as important to the operation as the journalists. They make the whole thing go, and on a personal level they put as much sweat and care into the newspaper as anybody else.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:55:00 +0000

Actually Nick, AZ Republic is still making a profit. However, it’s just not enough for “Gannett”.

Thank you for acknowledging the other 80+ people who have been laid off.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:35:10 +0000

Kind of sad Gannett/Dickey keep citing the economy as the cause of their woes. I killed off my subscription to the Arizona Republic, and simultaneously quit viewing 12 News, over 10 years ago and sent them a letter giving my reasons: poor local coverage; lack of depth; Republic + Channel 12 + azcentral.com too inter-referential without adding value in either place (I don't WANT to go to the web site or watch at 6pm, ESPECIALLY when you don't add new info but rather tell me to read the paper!); too much cut and paste from wire sources without addition of local perspective or analysis; not enough spelling and grammar checking; when I removed the fold-in ads, over half the paper was gone; even though I had a subscription they frequently called and mailed asking me to subscribe. Response? Crickets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:50 +0000

No one ever seems to report on ALL the people that are affected by cuts like these. Lots of journalists, and artists are let go, but we also lost people in finance, human resources, secretaries, operators, security guards, pressman, circulation managers, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some.