Wednesday, December 10, 2008
News AJC shrinks circulation, cuts 156 jobs
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Effective Jan. 11, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says it will shrink its circulation area to 27 counties and cut 156 jobs. The affected counties are mostly located along the Alabama and North Carolina borders (full list is available through the link). Jobs slated to be cut appear to be in the circulation department. (If I'm mistaken, please correct me in the comments or via e-mail.)
From the report:
The move will reduce daily and Sunday circulation about 5 percent. But it will not significantly affect overall readership — a measure of readers rather than the number of copies — because that is based on a 28-county area, the AJC said.The company said 215 employees have been offered involuntary severance packages as part of a restructuring of the circulation department, but that they may apply for 59 jobs created by the changes. The net reduction is 156 full- and part-time positions.
If you're an AJCer and wanna talk, send us a line. (Anonymity guaranteed.)
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"215 employees have been offered involuntary severance packages but that they may apply for 59 jobs created by the changes." i've been trying to tell you North Georgia Yankees that the end of the world will resemble a sunday-after-church, high-speed- buffet with only one fried drum stick left on the buffet.
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