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04.16
What’s Next? BailoutBelo.com?
As all of us in the media business have been watching with baited breath, newspapers aren’t doing so well these days.
Media magnate and Dallas-based, A.H. Belo (parent of our Morning News and WFAA), just made $10 million in job cuts with no ceiling in sight. It’s sad because some of those reporters “considering” career changes aren’t just colleagues, they are friends. Many of them leave without a fight because there is no one in the ring… except now, thanks to this story from PR Week.
In Minneapolis, spurned employees from the regaled Star Tribune are speaking out with the development of SaveTheStrib.com. The paper recently filed Chapter 11, won’t make a dime this year and its circulation of 300,000 is probably bloated beyond I-just-ate-all-the-Thanksgiving-leftovers status.
As noted from the Web-based platform, “Help us build a compelling case for potential new ownership that Minnesotans believe, as we do, that the Star Tribune is a vital part of our civic life.”
I applaud this effort and hope the Morning Newsers can do something similar, but one problem: There hasn’t been a viable post on the “Strib” in more than a week. Kinda’ hard to be compelling when your writers aren’t compelled enough to roll over and turn on a laptop from bed on a daily basis. I’m just saying.
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