Comments on: Layoffs at CL

By: Newspapers aren’t dead, part 2 « Virtualjournalist

Newspapers aren’t dead, part 2 « Virtualjournalist — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:04:23 +0000

[...] the wake of the layoffs at the Reader and City Paper, Ken Edelstein, former editor of Creative Loafing Atlanta, repeated Eason’s view of the Web [...]

By: autoprt

autoprt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:27:13 +0000

things change…one of the problems we are facing is we are in a new millenium and still operating under the old millenium ways.
R&D is never heard of anymore.
This may give you an opportunity to think of ways to recreate yourself into something new and unique.
Typewriters don’t exist anymore but they were useful to create the computer age.
I think its time for you to actually get “creative”

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:50 +0000

How about some investigative reporting about BIA Digital Partners and their role in axing editorial positions in DC and Chicago, or at least necessitating them? They enter the picture and two respected alt-weeklies are in danger of becoming as vacuous and content-free as BIA’s radio and lifestyle-magazine investments. Coincidence?

By: mrsandyd

mrsandyd — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:26:02 +0000

“Why is this happening? Did CL overextend when it purchased City Paper and the Reader?” Wow, I’m really shocked you concluded thea nswer was “no.” Nice bit of objective reporting!

By: sonya

sonya — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:48:14 +0000

For another version of this story, without the self-serving drivel, read about the layoffs in the Dec. 10 New York Times.

The Chicago Reader was a good newspaper. Creative Loafing is running it into the ground just as fast as it can.

By: Rich Jenkins

Rich Jenkins — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:25 +0000

You guys fired on eof the best investigative reporters at The Reader. Your PR drivel about the firings is hardly convincing. As an ex-Chicagoan, an ex/returning DCer and an ex-Atlantan, I can say that there is no comparison between CL and the papers that you bought, at least up until now. CL is almost as vapid as the AJC and reflective of a shallow, boosterish sensibility that is one reason why Atlanta probably will never live up to its often ludicrous hype. Unfortunately, what works in ATL won’t necessarily work in DC or Chicago and, esp. in DC you may find plenty of competition.

By: Joeventures

Joeventures — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:55:04 +0000

That’s a surprise to hear the Atlanta Business Chronicle is doing more news. But, then again, one useful article a year is more than zero.

By: Less & Less News

Less & Less News — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:57:41 +0000

CL’s news coverage is getting smaller & smaller each week, while smaller community papers like the various Neighbor papers, The Champion, GoDeKalb.com, are doing moe and more news, as is the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Ben Eason is in way over his head.

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:29:57 +0000

Please boot Andisheh. He often wins arguments with me and makes me learn things and I really don’t like that about him. Plus, he is funny and that makes it even harder to take.

By: Sellout

Sellout — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:21:37 +0000

Ken, a lot of what you write sounds like what Wallace and folks said at the AJC when they cut positions. Yet they got mocked for their words. However, the truth is, you’re right and Wallace was right. It’s a new world in Journalism and you have to figure out how to do good journalism with less staff. These won’t be the last layoffs ya’ll do, I’m quite sure. I know it’s hard and I’m not kicking the grave here. But you have treat the reasons for these layoffs with the same suspicion as the AJC layoffs.