Wonder who else is gone from Gazette/Mail

[Grandone]

"Some layoffs resulted while other employees chose to take retirement, new jobs elsewhere and/or severance. The newspaper experienced an overall reduction in newsroom staff of 18 full-time employees, seven of which were employment terminations. This is a trend that has occurred across the newspaper industry during difficult financial times.

Some longtime employees such as reporter Paul J. Nyden, features writer Charlotte Ferrell Smith, photographer Craig Cunningham and copy editor Charles Reilly opted for retirement.

“Unfortunately, we said goodbye to a number of employees who were talented, dedicated members of our newspaper family,” Shumate said. “The Gazette-Mail will miss them.”

 

[Orlaco]

Short of you starting this thread I really don't give two Hurdys about that newspaper.

Was it once a respected publication or something ?

 

[Woody in Helvetia]

Short of you starting this thread I really don't give two Hurdys about that newspaper.

Was it once a respected publication or something ?

It is 100% better than the rags that I have to read from Elkins and Wheeling.

 

[Orlaco]

It is 100% better than the rags that I have to read from Elkins and Wheeling.

I really didn't ask if there was worse....as if that somehow makes it something better than bad anyway.

 

[blaznmuskets]

Sure ya did you self absorbed asshole! Used to be a time we all depended on print to get our news. Clown!

 

[Orlaco]

Sure ya did you self absorbed asshole! Used to be a time we all depended on print to get our news. Clown!

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[MikeRafone]

Where did you learn the code? Real CW men learn the abbreviations before they start sending code.

Paul Nyden left? That says a lot about which direction the combined paper is heading. So much for the wacky theory of the "Vast liberal media conspiracy".

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

I am sorry anyone to losr their job. It is tough all over southern WV.

Honestly though I haven't read a newspaper on a regular basis in years. It is an antiquated form to spread the word.

Plus the whole editorial board and pages of the newspaper always came off to me as a bit snobbish. Like anybody who can think for themselves cares who a newspaper endorses for public office or where they stand on an issue.

The last regular sports writer/editor I read was Jack Bogaczyk. I liked his old school knowledge and didn't sugar coat it. I do read Casazza articles during season and realily enjoyed his book.

Good wishes & hopes to those who lost their jobs.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

The Daily Mail had an outstanding department in the late 1950s. Dick Hudson was the sports editor, and lived to be 100. Then I was on his staff. That it had to be outstanding. Newspapers everywhere are suffering the same fate because they didn't get at the front of the line when the Internet came along and provided free classifieds, which were 30% of newspapers' revenue. That bleeding became unstoppable. Democracy is poorer for it because there's no one to keep politicians and businesses for putting their hands into public cookie jars. Corruption can run amok, unfettered.

 

[eers1foru]

Well I for one love it. They've spewed their hatred for anything coal industry related for years. I guess the industry wide downturn that they helped create really does have an affect on other jobs in WV. I hope the rag goes bankrupt.

This is qualified with the fact that I hate to see any one individual lose their means of providing for their family. But I thinks it's ironic that their failure comes right along with the failure of the industry they have bemoaned for years

 

[Orlaco]

Democracy is poorer for it because there's no one to keep politicians and businesses for putting their hands into public cookie jars. Corruption can run amok, unfettered.

Hi quality journalism is still out there..... It's just on the Internet along with all the Joe blow wannabes. I think you're way off base if you really believe that the information age makes it easier for people to be corrupt.

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

Short of you starting this thread I really don't give two Hurdys about that newspaper.

Was it once a respected publication or something ?

Well, well, well ..... we all now know who you spend time thinking about.

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

"Some layoffs resulted while other employees chose to take retirement, new jobs elsewhere and/or severance. The newspaper experienced an overall reduction in newsroom staff of 18 full-time employees, seven of which were employment terminations. This is a trend that has occurred across the newspaper industry during difficult financial times.

Some longtime employees such as reporter Paul J. Nyden, features writer Charlotte Ferrell Smith, photographer Craig Cunningham and copy editor Charles Reilly opted for retirement.

“Unfortunately, we said goodbye to a number of employees who were talented, dedicated members of our newspaper family,” Shumate said. “The Gazette-Mail will miss them.”

Hickman is gone .... if no one else has reported that. Check out his twitter page.

 

[CE4WVU]

Where did you learn the code? Real CW men learn the abbreviations before they start sending code.

Paul Nyden left? That says a lot about which direction the combined paper is heading. So much for the wacky theory of the "Vast liberal media conspiracy".

Now that is the expected response of a well seasoned Amateur Radio operator who has mastered CW to the point that 20 wpm is child's play.

How he SHOULD have set it up was like this...

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