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Major Force Reduction at Arizona Daily Star.

by on Jul. 21, 2011, under Gannett, Journalism, Lee Enterprises

Dylan Smith, writing at the Tucson.Sentinel.com, is reporting that possibly as many as forty Star employees have been riffed, including as many as 15 from the newsroom…photographers, reporters and editors. Marketing and advertising staffers were also let go.

At this point it’s hard to get really solid numbers because folks aren’t answering the phones over there. Anyone here at The Citizen with a personal friend at the Star who could get more accurate figures?

Lee Enterprises, the Star’s publisher, is in serious financial difficulties and has been threatened by the New York Stock Exchange with the de-listing of its stock.

A quick quote from Smith’s report:

Profits from the South Park operation are shared between Lee and the former publisher of the Citizen, Gannett Inc.

Read Dylan Smith’s coverage here.

 

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  • Roy Warden

    Gosh and Golly!

    I thought writing left wing propaganda was STILL a thriving industry. Whatever will these unemployed propagandists do?

    RW 

  • Stridelighter

    Didn’t Gannett just take a hit with its former paper in Hawaii ? Well, the hits just keep coming.

  • Fraser007

    Ohhh this sounds like fun. Maybe they will end with a digital newspaper and I can post snarky comments on their blogsites. Let the fun begin. They will probably have a Spanish version. Maybe that will save their butts.

  • Downtown Dude

    It’s a pity the so-called Tucson Citizen doesn’t have its own story about the layoffs. Tucson Sentinel has been kicking butt on this story all day. The Star has yet to report one word. Sad.
    Fraser007, you can post your snarky comments now on Starnet.
    So glad you all can celebrate people’s loss of employment and income . Shame on you.

    • Fraser007

      I feel bad for the Borders employees. I feel a little bad about the Star employees but the Star is a tool of the left wing.

  • TheRebel

    Sad, but they’re already a tabloid. Sorry for the staff who didn’t call the slant direction.
    News died in Tucson years ago, like in most of the US. I’m not talking political parties but objective views expressed in an equal and unbiased manner.

  • RH

    Am sure glad I moved July 1, 2011 from Tucson, am retired, enjoy the fact when I don’t like a community, town etc., I merely go to where ever I wish too! But I do find amusement still reading that the peyton place peanut gallery snake oil drinkers on the far right wing in Pima County are still miserable, unhappy they are in the minority, each morning I get up early, sit outside my RV, watch the sun rise, enjoy the cool breezes, no traffic jams, no sirens blaring from them looney tunes shooting each other, running around playing rambo wanna-be’s chasing some hapless poverty stricken Hispanic fleeing a broken nation south of our borders, but am reminded of time long ago when the traditional print papers scoffed at “free papers” as foolish, would fail, it was in the 1970′s in Las Vegas, Nevada the Nifty Nickel, its been quite successful, expanded to other states under other company names/titles, today I see the same thing happening, media is slowly but surely going electronic, the same advertising base is there, some folks live in delusions of grandeur that when things change its a sign of their side of what ever political spectrum they obsess with is winning, when its nothing but changing times, keep on thinking liberals are dying out, loosing, and conservatives are winning, growing, last I checked GOP/Teapublican base was around 22% nationally, 34% here in Arizona, 31% democrat and remainder independent or minority parties, no I don’t see any side winning, dying, pretty  much status quo!:-)

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