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Boston Magazine cutting newsroom
By adamg on Tue, 01/05/2016 - 3:07pm
UPDATE: Three layoffs.
Senior Editor S.I. Rosenbaum tweeted early this afternoon that she's just lost her job.
"A major purge appears to be underway," Dan Kennedy added.
Editor-in-Chief Carly Carioli announced his sudden departure last month.
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That sucks
I find their local news coverage better than a lot of what I see in the Metro section of the Globe.
Very sad
They have written some great in-depth articles in the past few years. Their reporting on marathon bombers, Tom Brady's questionable buddy...etc. has been fantastic. Too bad each magazine is about 20 pages of news & 150 pages of ads. With these layoffs, I guess I'll let my subscription expire.
Guess They're Restructuring
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/01/05/metro-corp-announces-...
The death of traditional media
continues. Talented people are of value, even if a bean counter doesn't think so.
So what do you expect them to
So what do you expect them to do? Pay people with money they don't have? Pay more people than they can afford until they go outright out-of-business due to bankruptcy? I'm sure the rest of the employees will appreciate the sentiment.
Yup
This has nothing to do with "bean counters". It has to do with people not buying their magazine anymore. If they were making money, they wouldn't be cutting staff. Same thing goes for people whining about the Globe deliver issues. If the Globe was prosperous, do you think they'd be trying to save money on delivery? People aren't buying newspapers and magazines at the rate the did 20 yrs ago, that's why traditional media is dying and you're left with Twitter feeds, celebrity news, and (thankfully) blogs like this.
While there is no lack of up
While there is no lack of up to the minute news one thing that we are missing more and more from the media landscape is in depth coverage of issues. Magazines and newspapers will sometimes have a story that literally took months to research and craft before releasing it to the world. Every time a magazine or newspaper has to slash staff we lose more and more of those stories. I get why they had to do it but it is still a very sad moment.