As if losing your job doesn’t suck enough, those fine folks at Cox Media- who have a million dollars to donate to Dayton’s Whitewater- announced last week that they would be cutting jobs this week.
Word is that more reporters are being shown the door, a photographer and a few managers.
Considering they barely publish much in the way of original news now, one can only wonder what will be left.
Trained monkeys can run articles handed to them about how great the Dayton Development Coalition, Sinclair, UDRI, and assorted other sacred cows are.
Yet, they keep saying they are making money, selling ads no one sees, or wants to look at on their multitude of crappy digital properties.
If anyone had a brain there, the integration of radio, TV, print would have one super site that works.
Yet, they continue to launch new sites to increase their page views and hence their crap-ad count.
Best wishes to those who leave. Maybe all of your careers will blossom once you leave the mushroom factory. Look at what leaving did for Larry Price [1].
Looks like a theme for Cox newspapers. The AJC had a high of about 650 in the newsroom during the Atlanta Olympics to a soon-to-be 150. Cox needs to realize that posting links to other sites is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Without meaningful original content, they are headed the way of the dinosaurs.
http://m.clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/10/14/ajc-cuts-16-newsroom-positions-including-breaking-news-to-put-more-focus-on-digital
Maybe they are firing the wrong people- or maybe the soon to be fired workers are firing back…
Got this- first time-
“Dear Reader,
We are experiencing technical difficulties with our ePaper provider and expect delivery of your daily ePaper email and access to be delayed Thursday. We apologize for the inconvenience and invite you to access premium digital content on myDaytonDailyNews.com.
You will receive an email with access to Thursday’s ePaper as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
My condolences to those getting laid off. I’ve gone through that a couple of times. It’s a stressful time.
DDN is part of an 18 Billion dollar company. Sorry, but it’s decline has less to do with the brain power of its leaders and more likely overall business strategy. DDN is a legacy business. It’s being used to generate cash to fund other high growth areas within Cox Enterprise.