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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Posted by John Gillie @ 05:12:44 pm
The News Tribune today offered 189 of its 350 full-time staffers voluntary buyout deals and imposed work-week reductions on all hourly workers in a bid to bring the Tacoma newspaper’s expenses in line with its reduced advertising income.
The company did not say how many buyout offers would be accepted. Today’s deals are the second round of staff reductions at the paper. Eighty-two News Tribune workers left the paper as a result of a reduction in mid-June.
“I know these are difficult, stressful times,” Publisher David Zeeck wrote in a memo to staffers. “But I also know that the work we do is important, and I want to reassure you that our overarching focus remains the same: to be the most trusted supplier of local news and advertising for the South Sound.”
The company is offering employees a buyout package of two weeks’ pay for every year of service up to 13 years and some health benefits.
Categories: General, Employment/Workplace, Labor
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COMMENTS:
Have you considered raising subscription prices? I would gladly pay more per month than what I pay presently! The Olympian charges $14.90 a month, but in my estimation, the Trib is three times as valuable as The Olympian. You could charge the same fee as for The Olympian, and it would still be a fair price. Even if I had to pay $14.90 for the Trib, I would still feel that I was coming out on top.
I don't know who you contemplate laying off, but I would rather pay more than to not have some of your great reporters writing for the paper.
Thank you,
CF
I don't know who you contemplate laying off, but I would rather pay more than to not have some of your great reporters writing for the paper.
Thank you,
CF
Have you consider more in-depth and complete story discovery effort for your published news stories; as a result, the people of Pierce County and City Tacoma may, and that includes me too; it just follows, buy a paper to get to the real-facts about who is doing what to whom and specific benefit to who within our local areas and its governance, or the rest of the story that was not made public before because TNT did not do the extra effort discovery research; as a result, to ferret-out the story or editorial details for us to just read about if we just purchase printed newspaper, and only do a limited article summary within the TNT online stories published (no copy and paste free-bees to other publishers on the Internet); as a result, if you want to read the rest of the story or the complete story, without saying it, just buy the newsprint paper, else the story did not contain the much interesting content so it was not purchased, and I do not believe people buy TNT for the ability to read the advertising, so your article content choice -Vs- the reader's of TNT ability to spend their money for your printed newspaper.
People subscribed and bought papers due for different reasons once. It used to be Wed. had not only grocery sales but was full of home and cooking ideas. Another day had political round ups that covered all public government meetings coming up, reviews and voting records for those already held- both state and local government. Articles had a strong local focus. As hard copy papers whittled down their offerings, subscriptions declined and lost information is now only found online by searching multiple papers reporting to get real local reporting. I only get the Sunday paper cause its the only one left with any value. I miss getting a hard copy daily paper but our local news is just too cut and paste from AP feeds and really doesn't offer anything to make me break out my wallet.
I hope that some of the changes in the TNT will also include revising how it has been managed over the last few years. When readers can predict how the spin will be placed on stories combined with the non-existent investigative reporting done locally, the hard copy TNT isn't worth the cost.
I hope that some of the changes in the TNT will also include revising how it has been managed over the last few years. When readers can predict how the spin will be placed on stories combined with the non-existent investigative reporting done locally, the hard copy TNT isn't worth the cost.
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