As a nation that prepares to celebrates independence and summer fun tomorrow it has to be said not many U.S. journalists will be thinking about such lofty ideals. For more than few of them independence will mean liberation from their newspaper jobs, and quite possibly journalism as well.
I have been trying to keeps tabs on the journalism layoff phenom here in the States where newsroom leaders are struggling to reorganize their operations around the realities of consumer demand for news and the methods they will use to match their audiences.
Mostly this has taken the form of lopping off large sections of the editorial staff. Many other bloggers are saying that this is not leadership at all, but rather butchering.
I have been tracking these stories on my del.icio.us account for probably 18 months now and at the bottom of this post is the list of the last 30 items in that feed. (Subscribe to the RSS feed)
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