A rhetorical question about a newspaper company and hiring practices between its left and right hands

Why would anyone want to work at a newspaper company where an employee of the company owner’s ranch is put on the payroll of one of the newspapers? Not only does it punish the bottom line of that newspaper (and any profit-based bonuses to which its publisher might be entitled), it makes a skeptical mind wonder if there might not also be legal or tax reasons for this being done, and then wondering what such reasons might be.

How NOT to do a Progress edition

I’m just a lowly editor, not a publisher or general manager, but I know you never give away a larger editorial hole than the purchased ad space.

Gold Country Media, put a crowbar in your wallet

It's bad enough, when you own seven weeklies, one semiweekly and one six-day daily in the Sacramento area, all in growing, even booming communities, to expect out-of-area finanlists for the ME's position at one of your weeklies to pay full travel costs to interview.

It's even worse when you're already planning on hiring from within.

New Zealand’s top daily outsourcing Sunday production

Things like this show I’m in a dying profession:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Newspaper publisher APN News & Media began outsourcing editorial production work on Sunday, a plan that will be extended to five daily and three weekly newspapers by year end, a senior executive said.

The changes mean news editing and layout operations at The New Zealand Herald, the nation’s biggest daily, and a string of regional dailies will be done by an outside contractor, APN deputy chief executive Rick Neville said.

“I’m confident readers won't notice the difference” in the papers’ editing and design, Neville said.

The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union that includes New Zealand journalists, however, said the move will erode the quality of news coverage because stories will be handled by copy editors not familiar with local issues. ...

By year end, Pagemasters will employ about 45 editing staff at their site to edit the seven newspapers - nearly 30 fewer than the newspapers employed.

A goofy production thing about Granite Publishing

Not all its papers are on the same web. Most are 50-inch, but at least one is the old 55-inch.

HUH?

The difficulties of news reporting in Iraq

From San Antonio Express-News veteran Sieg Christenson.