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2019-05-05 Economy

Entire New Orleans Times-Picayune staff laid off in sale

[The Hill] A competitor that purchased The New Orleans Times-Picayune laid off the newspaper's entire staff.
"But we belong to a union!"
The New York Post reported Friday that a total of 161 workers lost their jobs, including 65 reporters and editors, citing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

The owners of The New Orleans Advocate, John and Dathel Georges, purchased The Times-Picayune from Advance Local. Advance Local is part of the same corporation that owns Condé Nast.

The Advocate will publish a daily paper using the names of both brands beginning in June and will merge their websites under NOLA.com.

Times-Picayune staffers mourned the layoffs on Twitter.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 ...Somehow, this is Trump's fault...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-05-05 06:55|| 2019-05-05 06:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Finally got back at those guys for their accurate Katrina reportage. Nagin smiles.

Posted by KBK 2019-05-05 07:27|| 2019-05-05 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 If there are any...
N.O. Republicans should collect books on Coding and hand them out at their building.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-05-05 07:32|| 2019-05-05 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee, your product doesn't sell. Who'd thunk?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-05-05 07:56|| 2019-05-05 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Learning to code is one part. Self identifying as a H1B is also necessary.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2019-05-05 08:19|| 2019-05-05 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 They could write letters to the new editors complaining about their employment situation.

Posted by Airandee 2019-05-05 10:34|| 2019-05-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 When journalists scoffed at unemployed American working class and told them disdainfully to "learn to code" or die, it was a harsh truth that needed to be said. Speak truth to the powerless!

When journalists are laid off, telling them "learn to code" is a hate crime.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-05-05 10:35|| 2019-05-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I stopped buying the Advocate twenty years ago because I refused to subjugate myself to their bullshit. I don't really care for the Picayune either but I can't really get it out here.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-05-05 11:07|| 2019-05-05 11:07|| Front Page Top

#9 A taste of New Orleans Advocate product...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-05-05 13:05|| 2019-05-05 13:05|| Front Page Top

#10 So they're fittingly named.

Posted by charger 2019-05-05 13:32|| 2019-05-05 13:32|| Front Page Top

#11 When journalists are laid off, telling them "learn to code" is a hate crime.

I'm tempted to join Twitter just so I can tell everyone of them 'learn to code'.

Posted by Raj 2019-05-05 15:31|| 2019-05-05 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12 I looked up their readership numbers--it doesn't go back to pre-Katrina, though. Steady to about 2012, then a quick drop, then a slow decline to less than half the 2008-2011 numbers.

Posted by james 2019-05-05 18:08|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2019-05-05 18:08|| Front Page Top

#13 then a slow decline to less than half the 2008-2011 numbers.

Like almost all the rest of the industry, then. Here in Cincinnati we used to have two separate newspapers. Now there is one, which also replaced the newspapers of the northern Kentucky region... after which it downsized staff again, contracted non-local reporting to USA Today, and physically shrank the paper version of the newspaper seen on newsstands. The Sunday paper now delivered to our house practically needs a magnifying glass to read.

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