Just ran into a Dallas Morning News staffer who took the paper’s buyout, and said writer had this tale to offer before departing for the world of freelance. Before they leave at week’s end, staffers are supposed to attend a handful of meetings, where, they believed, they were going to…
I guess I normally read the paper with two hats on. One is the sort of media critic hat, because I’m in the business, and I’m here at the Dallas Observer where we beat up on the mainstream media a lot. And they deserve it. But the other one is…
We are not the only ones who get a little sick at the thought of a Dallas Morning News without Ed Bark in it. On Friday, all those who have taken The Dallas Morning News’ buyout offer will be ushered out the door. I have no doubt it’ll be the…
A superior staffer at The Dallas Morning News who is not taking the buyout sends this missive regarding this morning’s post about the list posted here. It says, as follows: “1) That’s an incomplete list. A lot more good people are leaving. 2) Speaking as one of the 85% of…
Saw this story this morning in The Cincinatti Post about the shuttering of woxy.com, the acclaimed Internet-only statio, that offers a pretty hip playlist of alternarock and Amerindie–which is to say, Midlake gets played alongside Yo La Tengo and R.E.M., while Tom Waits and Johnny Cash can even find their…
The Dallas Morning News buyout list is making the rounds; let’s go to the source, shall we? Of course, it’s all very partial and just a little early; the paper’s management has yet to accept the acceptances and have till next week to do so. But it’s an estimable queue…
Today’s the day The Dallas Morning News sets its “voluntary” buyout list: Staffers have till 5:30 p.m. to withdraw their acceptances, which some folks have done and others are contemplating as the end draws near. But there’s at least one person in this world high on Belo, and his name…
A Friend of Unfair Park who used to work for Dallas’ Only Daily sends this e-missive concerning just who it is Belo Corp.’s trying to please with this latest round of buyouts: “Maybe the whole lack of understanding on the part of the professional journalists (as opposed to the professional…
Wanna know how The Dallas Morning News is advertising itself to advertisers? All you gotta do is click here to visit the paper’s new Web site, which, it says here, is designed to serve as a “a one-stop solution site for its advertising clients and employees.” Says Bernie Heller, the…
There is a very good explanation as to why so many arts critics are leaving The Dallas Morning News–or, at the very least, accepting the paper’s buyout offer, which they have till 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to withdraw. They were told to go by editor Bob Mong and vice president-managing editor…
A Dallas Morning News staffer who is taking the buyout offers the following concerning editor Bob Mong’s comments: “‘What I said in a memo to the staff when the press release [announcing the buyouts] came out was, if someone wants to get out of what is a very dynamic environment…
On Wednesday, Dallas Morning News staffers could begin accepting the newspaper’s buyout offers, and they did so in droves; some 80 staffers have taken the parting gift, among them some high-profile arts critics, reporters and editors. They’ve been named here and here, but those lists aren’t necessarily final: As Bob…
This afternoon, DallasBlog and FrontBurner began publishing the names of those staffers who have accepted the buyouts being offered by Dallas Morning News management. They sound about right from what we’ve been told over the course of the last two weeks; we have even more high-profile names to add, but…
Today, Dallas Morning News employees received this missive from Jim Moroney, their publisher and CEO. Word is, staffers at Dallas’ Only Daily–who, beginning at 8:30 this morning, could begin letting their bosses know whether they’re accepting the paper’s buyout offer–choked on it. “I am sorry to have to reschedule this…
I missed this on Saturday’s Dallas Morning News editorial page. I am glad a good Friend of Unfair Park’s did not: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out It’s bad enough that struggling Northwest Airlines Corp. is laying off some 1,000 machinists as well as members of…
Used to be, The Dallas Morning News’ “Over the Top” arts blog was a happening scene full of contributions from the entire GuideLive staff. Today, eh, not so much. A sign of things to come, or has everyone just found another place where they can go to kill time? (Thanks…
Belo Corp. issued a press release this morning announcing that while its television group’s making money–revenue increased 8.6 percent in July 2006 versus last year–its newspaper group revenue is down. Says here, “Newspaper Group total revenue decreased 4.2 percent for the month of July versus the prior year, with a…
To the laundry list of problems facing The Dallas Morning News, add another: A judge in El Paso ruled yesterday that a libel suit filed by a Mexican newspaper can proceed and will, in fact, likely go to trial in February. Says here–and not in Dallas’ Only Daily, far as…
Here’s some good news for fans of the cable networks Logo and Here!, two channels with content aimed at gay viewers that had been dropped from local cable programming when Time Warner Cable took over the Dallas cable from Comcast Corp. on August 1. That had some local viewers mighty…
A Dallas Morning News staffer says folks in the newsroom have been told that 85 is, in fact, the target number Belo execs are aiming for in this latest round of buyouts/layoffs/summer vacations. The way they understand it, if 85 take the offer, nobody else will be let go; turns…
This morning, Belo Corp. issued a press release announcing that, at long last, it has provided to Dallas Morning News staffers details of the “Previously Announced Voluntary Severance Program.” In short, it says it’s “being offered to almost all newsroom employees” and that it’s merely part of the “newspaper’s overall…
The Los Angeles Times this morning has a story that’s actually old news to most Dallas Morning News subscribers: Dallas’ Only Daily is among two major newspapers in the country to include with its Sunday editions IMedia International Inc.-created CD-ROMs full of “movie previews, music samples, video games, comics, celebrity…
