Post and Courier Sheds Jobs
Timber!
South Carolina’s dead tree media (a.k.a. newspaper industry) suffered another blow Friday when its reigning heavyweight – the Charleston Post and Courier – announced that it had shed twenty-three jobs.
The news was broken via perhaps the shortest article ever posted on the paper’s website …
The Post and Courier today eliminated 23 positions throughout the building, including seven that were unfilled, in an effort to cut expenses during continued economic weakness that is impacting advertising.
Yeah, that’s not an excerpt, people … that’s the whole article.
The Post and Courier, which overtook La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) earlier this year as the Palmetto State’s largest paper, is obviously nonetheless suffering from the same dramatic declines in circulation being felt by other South Carolina newspapers – and frankly newspapers all over the nation.
According to Audit Bureau of Circulations data released a week ago,
La Socialista – which has lost nearly 13,000 subscriptions in the last month alone – has already endured three rounds of layoffs within the last year, reducing its total workforce by 11%.
UPDATE: We’ve been asked a few times why we put news of journalism job losses under our “Good Stuff” section. That’s easy … we’re competing with them, and “if they gonna drown,” we’re gonna “stick a hose in (their) mouth.”
Plus, we hear there are some good construction jobs coming to the S.C. Lowcountry soon …
Comments
By Liberty For Me on November 7th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Until we get a paper that will print facts they expose and write themselves instead of copy and pasting whatever propaganda everyone else does,they will heave problems .The more the web exposes the truth…the more papers will have to follow the lead or fold…In the end people want Liberty and will see through the schemes to take it from them
By BIN News Editorial Staff on November 7th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
sic(k) willie is just a political pimp and political moron.
No honest person in S.C. or the world thinks porn blogs like fitsnews have any impact on what’s happening to the print media.
It’s the economy, you moron.
Google it, you moron. :) MSM is on the web. You moron.
sic(k) willie just tries to take advantage.
BIN News
Flair and Balanced
By James the Foot Soldier on November 7th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
BIN – actually, most intelligent life forms have figured out that spending a buck for AP wire stories that they can get on line is stupid. Not only that, spending money on newspapers like The State, USA Today is basically writing a check to the Democrat National Committee.
Do yourselves a favor – get a subscription to the Wall Street Journal – better reporting, better news, better editorials, and y’all might learn a thing or two about numbers – the achilles heal of the politico wannabes.
By SnakeMD on November 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am
The Free Times is now larger than The State newspaper! Hell, The Star is far more interesting than The State. The State has now joined the rest of corporate America–going down the tubes. All biz decisions are made by wonder-kids for the good of the parent company and the few who run it at the top. Last week The State quoted Fitsnews on the cemetery sex story. Now that’s a first!
By Philip Branton on November 9th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Is that an OWLS Nest in the Top of that TREE..!?!
Santee “Sandanista” Cooper will stop at nothing…!?!?
Geez…
By Red on November 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
It is definitely not the recent economic downtown killing newspapers.
For example, I want to sell my car. Used to advertise in the Post and courier for a hundred bucks or more. Now I put the ad on Craigs List for free and within an hour I have two people interested in seeing the car. That is what is killing newspapers and it is only going to accelerate.
The Wall Street Journal used to be a newspaper- now it is a propaganda machine run by Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street banks.
The Charleston paper runs all the same old tired out idea starved editorials. Bush was great and “conservative” and Obama is awful and a communist. All wars are good and more wars are better. People are tired of all that back and forth rehashed blather.
This is probably my last year with a Charleston Post and Courier delivered to my house. My wife likes it and I don’t even read it anymore.