From The Gannett Blog Last Friday, Gannett newspaper division chief Bob Dickey (left) traveled to Arizona to deliver bad news to dozens of employees. Citing the “difficult economy,” he said the nation’s No. 1 newspaper publisher planned to shutter the Tucson Citizen, the state’s oldest continuously published daily, unless a new owner is found by [...]
More On The Gannett Furlough
From former Tennessean columnist Tim Chavez on the Gannett layoffs. You’ve got to give Gannett some credit for this action, which it says is in lieu of layoffs. Of all the newspaper companies, Gannett was the last to lay off people. Yet, staffing levels at most Gannett newspapers were lowest for most of the industry. [...]
Gannett Furloughs Employees For One Week
Notice it says the first quarter. Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, will make workers take a week off without pay because of what it called some of the most difficult economic conditions it has ever experienced. “This means that most of our U.S. employees — including myself and all other top executives [...]