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...obituaries had been written for New York Newsday, the Norfolk Ledger-Star in Virginia, the Baltimore Evening Sun and the 93-year-old Greenville Piedmont of South Carolina, while a grand total of 13,000 newspaper employees, 2.6% of the newspaper work force, lost their jobs or took buyouts. Downsizing, cost cutting, merging, closing: these catchwords not only dominated the papers' business pages but also became the stories of the newspapers themselves. IF YOU THINK THIS WAS A BAD YEAR, warned a headline in a newspaper trade magazine, BETTER GET USED...
Their principal, Bettye Howard, beamed as she informed questioners that the kids came from the public Jackson Elementary School. As she told Newsday, "The students came up to me and said, "They think we go to a private school.' It made the children feel good about themselves...
...turns out that NBC and News 12 Long Island had run the story. Newsday did a cover piece called "Condom Handout." The principal heralded "a new era of condom availability." All in all, it was a big sensation topped by a press conference and a tour of the school nurse's office where the fish bowl of condoms is to sit. Everyone was pleased that they were saving the world from AIDS. But in the process, administrators missed the bigger picture of what's wrong with sex today...
...cuts will trim about 700 jobs at the Los Angeles Times, 150 of them editorial, through layoffs, attrition and early retirement. The paper is closing several regional sections. Times Mirror is also giving second thoughts to its effort to enter cable-TV programming. While New York Newsday has stopped publishing, some staff members may be moved to Newsday's flagship paper on Long Island, which has been consistently profitable...
...just hope that, in these cost-cutting spasms that the stockholders think are important, they put some pressure on Mark Willes not to degrade quality," comments Bryce Nelson, interim chairman of the University of Southern California school of journalism and a former L.A. Times reporter. At New York Newsday, some staff members are bitter because they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer...