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What hurts about understaffing is to see the quality-control decline. Big mistakes make it to print. And pity the middle-managers. They are just slaving to keep up.
Give them more Lee-Way-They are trying to do more with less. You know practicing careful cost control. If they were building cars half would come off the assembly line with no engine. HEY MORE COST CONTROL
As a recent J school graduate I am very puzzled to be in the newsroom of a company with the imprudent vision that Lee has in the changing newspaper industry. Although I do not yet write for a paper I notice that reporting news and sourcing information as taught in school is not the same in the real world. The changing environment as identified in the classroom is noticeably stricken on the daily pages of most Lee papers. With the every changing control of all media Lee seems destine to reconcile with ordinary citizens and their elitists financial backers by continually trying to refine their unattainable obligation to both. Their success seems dubious as they noticeably do not acknowledge the public trust they so eagerly accept and refusing to consider the essential role of their newspapers in our democracy. Lee certainly is no prize!
I see an enormous amount of negativity going on here. What’s with that?
Just accept the fact that Lee is what Lee is, don’t try to change them.
You can’t save people like this from themselves. Take your money and run.
They don’t expect any more from you even if you think YOU are special to them. Big companies today are all the same. It’s just that Lee got in way over their head. Check GM & Ford, who would have thought- although they are turning things around and they treated their employees a whole lot better, it’s because of the autoworkers union.
We watch our company stock drop 50 percent in six months - far worse than Gannett or NYTimes stock - while corporate slings slogans, rolls out useless online programs and partnerships and holds prayer meetings. Meanwhile our best people flee, and those of us left behind must convince our readers we still have a workable plan. Shareholders should be outraged about the wasted opportunities.
To fellow empolyees–Don’t be too quick to buy newspaper stock now. Even though the price is low it could drop even lower. It requires a good amount of homework and may not be worth the hassle to own stock in what is expected to remain a brutally tough business. Owning newspaper stock like the Washington Post that owns more than a printing business is key. Good companies like Gannett, McClatchy and E.W. Scripps, which also owns cable networks in addition to newspapers could fair better. It is believed that investors should not put new money into newspaper stock at this point.The halcyon days of newspapers is long gone, and so are the days when these stocks can reward investors. Just sharing info I researched on the net.
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
What hurts about understaffing is to see the quality-control decline. Big mistakes make it to print. And pity the middle-managers. They are just slaving to keep up.
September 7th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Give them more Lee-Way-They are trying to do more with less. You know practicing careful cost control. If they were building cars half would come off the assembly line with no engine. HEY MORE COST CONTROL
September 12th, 2007 at 9:12 am
As a recent J school graduate I am very puzzled to be in the newsroom of a company with the imprudent vision that Lee has in the changing newspaper industry. Although I do not yet write for a paper I notice that reporting news and sourcing information as taught in school is not the same in the real world. The changing environment as identified in the classroom is noticeably stricken on the daily pages of most Lee papers. With the every changing control of all media Lee seems destine to reconcile with ordinary citizens and their elitists financial backers by continually trying to refine their unattainable obligation to both. Their success seems dubious as they noticeably do not acknowledge the public trust they so eagerly accept and refusing to consider the essential role of their newspapers in our democracy. Lee certainly is no prize!
September 12th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I see an enormous amount of negativity going on here. What’s with that?
Just accept the fact that Lee is what Lee is, don’t try to change them.
You can’t save people like this from themselves. Take your money and run.
They don’t expect any more from you even if you think YOU are special to them. Big companies today are all the same. It’s just that Lee got in way over their head. Check GM & Ford, who would have thought- although they are turning things around and they treated their employees a whole lot better, it’s because of the autoworkers union.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
We watch our company stock drop 50 percent in six months - far worse than Gannett or NYTimes stock - while corporate slings slogans, rolls out useless online programs and partnerships and holds prayer meetings. Meanwhile our best people flee, and those of us left behind must convince our readers we still have a workable plan. Shareholders should be outraged about the wasted opportunities.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:01 am
To fellow empolyees–Don’t be too quick to buy newspaper stock now. Even though the price is low it could drop even lower. It requires a good amount of homework and may not be worth the hassle to own stock in what is expected to remain a brutally tough business. Owning newspaper stock like the Washington Post that owns more than a printing business is key. Good companies like Gannett, McClatchy and E.W. Scripps, which also owns cable networks in addition to newspapers could fair better. It is believed that investors should not put new money into newspaper stock at this point.The halcyon days of newspapers is long gone, and so are the days when these stocks can reward investors. Just sharing info I researched on the net.