Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham News cuts salaries through 2010, eliminates most part-time positions http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/ A group for networking and socializing among media professionals in Birmingham, Alabama Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham News offers buyouts to employees across the board « Media of Birmingham http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-2271 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:54:53 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-2271 [...] Past buyouts were limited to those with at least 5 years of service. [...]

]]> By: EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham News could face layoffs by February « Media of Birmingham http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1974 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:50:30 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1974 [...] June, the News cut salaries 5 percent to 8 percent, ended furloughs and offered a round of [...]

]]> By: Media of Birmingham http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1916 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:09:41 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1916 No permission needed: Katherine Poythress, as she lists herself on her public Twitter page, is a “reporter for the Sylacauga, Ala. bureau of The Daily Home, a newspaper covering Talladega and St. Clair counties in Central Alabama.” That info comes from her public blog, linked from her public Twitter page.

Not sure how linking to info widely available to anyone on the Web is “reckless and thoughtless.” It would have more reckless, in our opinion, not to list sources for our reporting.

Feel free to explain your concerns, or tweet about this post.

]]> By: Matte http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1915 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:39:29 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1915 I doubt when Kpoythress, whoever she is, was tweeting that about her own job, she imagined someone would be so thoughtless as to just post every tweet she made.

Did you ask her for permission? I am sure you did not. For a media blog to be so reckless, and thougthless, is in excusable. And I’m tweeting that.

]]> By: EXCLUSIVE: Southern Living lays off editorial staffers « Media of Birmingham http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1913 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:02:29 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1913 [...] Job Board ← EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham News cuts salaries through 2010, eliminates most part-time positions [...]

]]> By: Media of Birmingham http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1911 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1911 It’s scary now. It may be even scarier in 3 months if this doesn’t stop the bleeding.

]]> By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » June 4, 2009: A day, anyway http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1910 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:06:00 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1910 [...] at Alabama’s Birmingham News, they’re cutting salaries and eliminating part-time [...]

]]> By: trav http://mediaofbirmingham.com/2009/06/03/exclusive-birmingham-news-cuts-salaries-through-2010-eliminates-most-part-time-positions/#comment-1909 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:27:44 +0000 http://mediaofbirmingham.wordpress.com/?p=626#comment-1909 Don’t know why this shocks as much as it does. This is scary. It’s too much, too fast.

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