![]() The newspaper was said to be losing $1 million a week a year ago, an amazing number. Yet that didn’t translate to subscribers - circulation kept dropping, in part due to deliberate corporate decisions, and advertising didn’t recover after the burst of the tech bubble and the increasing inroads from classified-ad competitors that work better for buyers and sellers. It still deserves a better paper, but the positive change has been incredible since the Hearst buyout. ![]() The city always deserved a vastly better paper than it had. Then it brought the SF Examiner employees along, and had what can only be called a bloated staff.īut the paper did improve - wow, did it improve. When Hearst bought the Chronicle years ago, it pledged to keep all the employees from the old Chronicle. ![]() ![]() But in this case the move was plainly going to happen. That’s losing a limb,” said (Tom) Rosenstiel ( director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in Washington), who grew up in the Bay Area.Īmputation sounds about right, and it’s a serious blow to local journalism. SF Chronicle: Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom “That’s not just trimming fat, that’s an amputation. ![]()
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