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to the dark side since he left here for divinity school and is now a priest you can find his remarks in the comment thread from yesterday but here s the nut graf what i find lacking is a conversation about journalism how will this impact the core mission of the newspapers to cover our communities states the nation and the world it is fine to talk about strategy and revenues and the economics of the news business but that i expect from gary pruitt i especially want to hear you of all people talk about journalism in this environment how will reporters and editors do their jobs what s your vision for journalism is this environment it is fine to say the survivors who are left should focus on their jobs but how doing what what will not be covered what beats are going by the boards and i ask this as a member of the sacramento community who depends on my newspaper to cover the community and the state the sacramento bee has 151 years of credibility what are you going to do with it as journalists first i d say that while yesterday s post wasn t much about journalism this whole blog is we ve been talking since 2006 about precisely these issues more questions than answers as a rule but that s the nature of reinvention isn t it we truly are going to have to do things differently secondly let me follow the old city desk advice to be specific rather than general hours after the layoffs were announced yesterday newsrooms in raleigh and charlotte made another announcement the two are in effect combining sports staffs n c capitol bureaus and libraries and will be coordinating features coverage this means fewer editors and more reporters less duplication more coverage in n o editor john drescher s words to me we re going to be breaking more news and producing more enterprise the memo to staffs there included this summary these are bold moves for two outstanding newspapers we believe that they will help ensure that these papers continue to set the standard for excellence in journalism across north carolina for many years to come we also have many details yet to work out for that we ll need your full support talent patience and problem solving skills so please join in and help us now build on these ideas and make them a success in an era of stretched resources our newspapers are very fortunate that we have this opportunity there are few places in the united states where sister newspapers are as naturally aligned in terms of journalistic values and geography we want to take full advantage of it for the benefit of all of our readers this is part of the way we ll do it jim mcclatchy s new scale helps with content sharing allowing papers to stop covering some traditional stories using colleagues work instead and devoting scarce resources to other unduplicated efforts technology makes this much easier you may remember times when the sacramento modesto and fresno bee papers all had separate staffers at the same event for good mostly and ill that s over i recall a day not long ago when the sacramento bee ombudsman criticized his paper for sending only about a dozen staffers to cover some southern california wildfires i thought at the time that was misguided if it happened today i d be furious while there will always be good reasons to send special talents to remote events a great photographer perhaps or a compelling columnist i flatly dispute the logic of sending a dozen bee staffers hundreds of miles simply to have staff bylines on a story being covered by hundreds of l a times and other local journalists whose work we can publish and link to we re doing things differently now mcclatchy s new scale also allows us to share the robust original journalism of national and international staffers overseas and in washington i ll point with great pride to the series currently featured in our papers and online guantanamo beyond the law as a splendid example of public service journalism that only a committed professional news operation can support these stories spanned eight months reporting in 11 countries tracking down more than 60 former detainees who didn t necessarily want to be found and they told americans something they very much need to know finally i d point to other efficiencies we re actively pursuing in order to sustain resourses devoted to journalism here s one yesterday we also announced a strategic partnership intended to take advantage of upgraded printing capabilities at pioneer newspaper facilities in washington and idaho to print two of our papers there similar discussions naturally are underway elsewhere as are deals to share distribution forces with neighboring sometimes competitive papers to outsource work outside our core mission to expand into growing profitable niches like speciality magazines and so forth honest to god sorry jim it really is about reinvention we re not just saying that we re doing it seminars and conferences and workshops aren t the answer we need to produce asked about some of this by editor publisher today i said we are at a place where we have to demonstrate that our plan will work we have to perform we won t get it all right certainly not the first time around and when we screw up as you see here we have friends colleagues and others readily at hand to help point that out what we will not do is stand still and we won t quit the work we do is too important and our commitment too deep for it to be otherwise posted by howard at 12 16 pm 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 16 2008 pain promises at mcclatchy this is a time of considerable pain at mcclatchy most especially for the 1 400 people who are being told their jobs are gone that amounts to about 10 of the full time equivalent workforce at our company amongst editorial employees the total is about nine percent probably ending up between 310 320 people almost all are people we wish we could keep the numbers include colleagues with impressive resumes and long tenure who have contributed great things in places where last in first out rules apply too many are talented minorities we have worked hard to recruit and retain at a time of stress and challenge in adapting to new demands online and elsewhere moving backward on staffing is doubly painful we ve never done anything like this before while other news companies went through round after round of broad across the board layoffs we relied principally on managed attrition to help cut expenses while revenues fell some people also were let go when jobs were outsourced though never in the newsrooms this is a cultural as well as individual trauma for us the combined impact of increased media competition and a deepening national recession has forced us to cut more quickly we hope this aggressive move will spare us another like it down the road though there are no absolute certainties in today s volatile environment we need the the 90 of employees who aren t in the downsizing to focus on the work at hand with confidence not be looking over their shoulders for another round of layoffs i hope we can achieve that i expect some employees at the old mcclatchy papers will see this as confirmation that the company changed irrevocably when it bought knight ridder for folks at the former kr papers i suppose this must be evidence that not as much changed as they hoped both are wrong in my view the economic squeeze we re in right now has nothing to do with greed or corporate culture or even business mistakes it has everything to do with a radically changing business environment and with revenues which for us have fallen by hundreds of millions of dollars airlines are canceling flights laying off crews and charging for checked luggage more than 65 000 jobs have been lost on wall street auto workers and real estate agents are working at starbucks i wrote here just a week ago about why i think it s foolish to predict the death of newspaper companies like ours on the basis of simpleminded dichotomies yes there are powerful forces at play that have changed the old rules of the game forever yes there are cyclical economic forces that have deeply compounded our pain but while we are not immune from those forces neither are we stupid we ve recognized for some time that irrevocable changes were afoot that business as usual was no strategy for the future because we didn t simply renounce the print franchise which as i keep mentioning is a 40 billion a year industry that reaches half the adults in america every day some critics attach the label dinosaur and predict imminent demise what they have failed or refused to note is the rapid transformation we re already undergone and the latent potential for more change in our future integrated multimedia news and information companies employing sophisticated newsrooms and big sales departments that s us can assemble big growing audiences and while google s adsense and related technologies have changed the advertising revenue paradigm growing audience remains the best predictor of future success for any media company we have to tailor this 151 year old company differently to operate profitably and respond efficiently in the new arena with an advertising recession layered on top of the other changes we found we had to move faster than we wanted and that required the layoffs we announced today some things you simply cannot control but some things you can and our response to this period of challenge is one of those i can assure you that thousands of mcclatchy employees like me will take some time to grieve the loss of colleagues being laid off and to curse the conditions that led to it and then go back to work producing quality public service journalism we will be around doing that at mcclatchy for a very long time to come if any of you doomsayers would like to put some money where your mouth is on that prediction you know where to find me posted by howard at 9 48 am 35 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 15 2008 npr on guantanamo series click to hear npr s andrea seabrook interview mcclatchy s tom lasseter about the series guantanamo beyond the law an examination of how america detained the wrong people abused them and created a school for jihad posted by howard at 8 24 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 12 2008 guantanamo beyond the law we got the wrong guys we abused them we created a school for jihad for more than six years the united states has held hundreds of men at guantanamo the worst of the worst in the words of former defense secretary donald rumsfeld but the truth was different mcclatchy tracked down 66 men released from guantanamo in the most systematic survey to date of prisoners held there many had no connection to terrorism but their experience turned them against america see a preview here posted by howard at 3 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest echos and elaboration from anchorage the anchorage press is an alternative weekly in my hometown that through much of its incarnation feels like it existed mainly to bedevil the anchorage daily news you have to have something to be alternative to after all and that probably explains much this week i noticed with some interest an engaging and thoughtful column there by keista degeorge about a subject near to my heart me well not me exactly but my recent column on news media prospects punctuated evolution and all that i recommend it here s a chunk weaver thinks his company s dna is changing rapidly enough to keep pace with this new crop of media and you can t blame him for more than a decade he s been one of the main architects of mcclatchy s strategies in this arena mcclatchy s adaptation is well underway he writes we re becoming an integrated multimedia company that delivers value added news and information across many platforms filling a niche that didn t exist 10 years ago but now holds bright promise for companies who can make the necessary adaptations that last sentence is where the red flags start to poke out when a journalist of weaver s caliber lapses into corporate speak a little suspicion is in order what are these necessary adaptations one anonymous commenter claiming to be a reporter for mcclatchy s raleigh newspaper the news and observer asks whether it means layoffs and a few sentences later in weaver s post comes a line that won t allay that journalist s fears much the work will grow more sophisticated and staffs even if smaller will need to be smarter and more sophisticated too but downsizing staffs won t necessarily alter an organization s dna to be fair weaver does offer a bit more insight shedding stock tables for instance or adding online databases but only a bit the question of how exactly mcclatchy plans to alter itself enough to fit whatever niches weaver and company envision for it remains mostly unanswered by the end of the post posted by howard at 8 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 10 2008 joe kieta s moving on mcclatchy s merced sun star editor joe kieta is leaving the paper to become editor of the observer dispatch a gatehouse paper in utica ny details are available in the sun star story online here for my part let me just say i m sorry to see him go and will miss the energy enthusiasm and alacrity joe brought to our company during this crucial time for journalism anybody whose website had a video of a reporter being tasered and a story about teenagers being caught having sex in a department store on the same day obviously understands something about the new media landscape bon voyage joe i ll send you one of my old snow shovels from alaska days posted by howard at 11 16 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 08 2008 mcclatchy s punctuated evolution newspaper people nowadays are understandably consumed with questions and debates about the future of their business often conflating that with the fate of journalism or even democracy itself that linkage is not without merit but it introduces an unfortunate either or argument that obscures many possible alternatives the construct that says something must be either up or down dead or alive old or new dominates western thinking but it s at odds with observable reality life in general and questions like this in particular rarely resolve into tidy binary conclusions yes no most of life is maybe sometimes and partly not quite digital triumphalists who always seem to handle hyperbole better than subtlety delight in apocalyptic views print revenue is falling faster than online revenue is growing to replace it therefore newspaper companies will fail this ignores the fact that expenses and margins can also fall as they are older people read newspapers more than younger ones therefore newspaper companies are doomed this suggests we give...