http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/08/22/breaking-oregonian-to-lay-off Comments On: BREAKING: Oregonian To Lay Off At Least 100 Employees by Matt Davis en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by YouKnowWho]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:09:09 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by benoit]]> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:41:03 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by YouKnowWho]]> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:37:56 -0700 Portland Mercury I hate the new WW.
The new Mercury is decent. It makes good use of whitespace ( http://www.grantasticdesigns.com/whitespace.html ) . However when I visit the news page upon occasion the articles haven't drawn me in.


In general entities that rely on nonelectronic medium have been dying/will die eventually. I haven't paid for a newspaper in over a decade, and I block all advertising.
Posted by ?pqM)mH{5i*7V7wVNiH?tcvUk'j>tH\VF5!V+00HY?jgK7@iA<_(B0Mii*:@e9Iq]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:10:47 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by dubie]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:22:36 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by jake]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:18:10 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by ex-o-employee]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:15:01 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Matt Davis]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:00:02 -0700 Portland Mercury
http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/07/10/oregonian_to_close_bureaus_cut_newsroom_staff/


Posted by Steve R.]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:33:44 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, voluntary buyouts do not equal layoffs.
Posted by Steve R.]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:27:07 -0700 Portland Mercury
Gee. I'd start with the moribund columnists and the ancient and boring editorial page. That's 50 off the top. Next, how about all the dead wood in advertising and marketing - that's another 75.

Fred's been insincere in trying to liven up the O for 25+ years. This action was delayed since Spring. The O hasn't dismissed people without potent cause in decades, but it's going to take more than 10% to budge that iceberg - try 30%, get rid of 1/2 the syndicated crap, lose all the A&E editors over 50, invest in multimedia training for reporters (watch "Lovelle Svart" for pointers), and in general stop pandering to the grannies in King City. Jumping Jehosephat, the Mercury is regularly beating your lede.

But the bottom line - what will shift gears at the Oregonian, Fred, is new leadership, starting with you.
Posted by cicolini]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:24:12 -0700 Portland Mercury
At any rate, this is too bad.
Posted by ROM]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:23:30 -0700 Portland Mercury http://www.naughtynw.com/nnw/Naughty
Posted by DLS 3.0]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:16:06 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by it's still ugly]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:08:41 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by DLS 3.0]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:34:27 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by It's sooo huge, Matt!]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:59:31 -0700 Portland Mercury