Most people in the news business hit media websites a few times a day. It’s a horror movie, best glimpsed between fingers ready to close shut at the worst carnage.
So I already knew that TV stations were feeling the pain just as much as newspapers — see KATV’s big layoffs, KTHV’s furloughs, etc. But maybe I didn’t fully appreciate the depth.
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A Wall Street Journal article notes declining revenue has caused cuts in staff and news program time. At Gannett, which owns 22 TV stations including KTHV, Jim Hopkins’ Gannettblog says:
Gannett has been cutting costs by eliminating pricey news anchors, hiring “one-man-band” reporter-videographers, and consolidating work such as graphics production.
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Eliminating anchors? Holy mother of Karen Fuller.
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