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Teamsters Write U-T Advertisers Seeking Support
Also forgot to add, this is not the first time a union has contacted advertisers about their negotiation problems with the U-T. When I sold print at the U-T there were many advertisers that increased their advertising when the unions tried to get them to boycott the U-T.— October 5, 2009 9:29 a.m.
Teamsters Write U-T Advertisers Seeking Support
I am pretty sure that the million a day includes online readers as well as print readers.— October 5, 2009 9:25 a.m.
Orange County Register Parent to File Bankruptcy: Report
They are in debt because part of the family wanted to keep the papers so they were forced to borrow money to buy out the family members that wanted to sell off all of the papers.— September 1, 2009 6:24 a.m.
Platinum Deal for Delphi Delayed Again
This is how the rich keep getting richer and us middle class schmucks have to foot the bill.— July 22, 2009 9:26 a.m.
Tracking the Union-Tribune Deal: Five parcels sold for a total of $51.2 million
The word is that 150- 200 people have been laid off. There were some editorial lay-offs but there were far more in other departments this time, including advertising sales and management positions.— May 7, 2009 2:10 p.m.
Union-Tribune Circulation Drops 9.53 points
TV news is comprised of 30-second sound bites and some video. TV news staffs are very small and, yes, they do have some investigative reporting but never to the scale of what newspapers do because they don't have the staff for it. Unfortunately, there are many in the general public that don't realize how little real news is covered on local TV nor how small the TV news staffs really are. Local radio news is usually taken from the local paper because they have even smaller news staffs. The future new owners of the U-T are venture capitalists not newspaper people. Everything will be based on profit percentages and not on news value. I don't think that the product will be better and we are in big trouble if we have to rely on TV news and bloggers for factual news content.— April 29, 2009 8:38 a.m.
Next Will Come No-Newspaper Markets, Says New York Times Story
Most newspapers were able to see the coming of the internet and the migration of readership to online. The UT started SignOnSanDiego many years ago buy the ad revenue derived from their website was never going to be enough to offset the loss of print revenue. The internet ad dollars are growing overall but it is the perfect example of how big a problem fragmentation is in the advertising business. At the UT the real estate bubble bursting was the final straw for several reasons. 1.) San Diego businesses were living off of home refinancing. As long as people could pull equity out of their homes, business was good. When that money dried up and people couldn't pay their mortgages, local businesses didn't have money to advertise. 2.) Real Estate advertising was a cash cow for the UT. The UT led all major Metros in revenue growth for a couple of years because real estate advertising was growing at a huge rate. 3.) A dynamic economy, both up and down, has caused many mergers in the wireless and retail industries. All of these market changes have have had a dramatic affect on newspaper revenues.— March 16, 2009 8:47 a.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
I can say that in my current employment we use an image setter that outputs film. We have been notified by our main supplier that they will no longer be selling image setter film because the market is dwindling due to cutbacks in page count and many printing plants are going direct to plate. You can be assured that the UT suppliers of large camera film passed along a similar message sometime back. The purchasing department at the UT had some of the longest term employees and most took early retirement and weren't replaced. It is a difficult transition period for an institution as stable as the UT has been. They have to try to replace many veteran employees with a lot fewer younger, less experienced and less expensive employees. The pension accruals are now gone so there will be more veterans leaving. Hopefully the paper will endure and what emerges from this turmoil is a more adaptable structure; one that isn't afraid to hear that the emporer has no clothes. The world still needs newspapers, maybe one with a little humility.— February 9, 2009 5:49 p.m.
It Looks Like Copley Press Was Spending Money on Acquisitions When It Should Have Been Spending on Technology
Regarding the shortage of film,the purchasing department was dismantled and the veteran purchasing people are gone. The suppliers did warn their customers about potential film shortages but there may not have been anyone of experience to warn the suits. They had not moved away from the cut and paste layout method because it was cheaper than investing in a pagination system. They had the personnel on staff that could handle the paginating but they dumped half of their artists almost a year ago and out-sourced some of their ad design to India. Anyone that spoke up about potential problems was encouraged to find other employment because they weren't team players.— February 9, 2009 11:36 a.m.