D-Day at the AJC

It’s not a good day to be a reporter or editor at the AJC.

Word is the staff is on edge because the powers-that-be are going to inform the staff on Wednesday which jobs will be kept under the paper’s vast re-structuring plan. Staffers fear that those who management likes will keep their jobs, and the ones it doesn’t like will lose theirs.

What I’ve heard is that every person on staff will have to apply to keep his or her job, complete with résumé and a job interview.

If, for example, the AJC decides not to keep a reporter on the City Hall beat, the current person manning that beat can apply for open jobs. Everyone, I’m told, has had to prepare résumés (classes on résumé writing and job interviewing were provided).