Globe, Worcester paper to make cuts
By adamg - 1/11/07 - 5:09 pm
Jesse Noyes at the Herald has the scoop (and the internal memos): 125 jobs to be eliminated at the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, including 19 newsroom staffers (17 in news and 2 in op-ed). Buyouts will be offered; boston.com staffers, however, cannot take them. Also coming: Less space for news in the Globe and outsourcing in the finance and "advertising operational" areas (so, hmm, when you call to place an ad, you'll get somebody in Bangalore?).
Dan Kennedy is not surprised:
... [T]he Globe in a few years will be mostly local, mostly online and a lot smaller than it is today. This is just another painful step toward that uncertain future.
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Globe "TV Week" section cuts
Have you noticed what has happened to the Sunday TV supplement? If it gets any smaller, you won't be able to find it at all. It assumes that nobody watches any TV show before 9 am or after midnight.
Another cutback people may not have noticed: the Thursday Calendar section no longer lists any movies, even special showings at colleges, museums, and libraries.