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To: nextrade! who wrote (187559)	3/2/2009 1:09:39 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 306849

Thank you. This is a sad and moving video. I did read the editor's goodbye editorial at RMN...I think I saw it on mediabistro's galleycat. It is, for me, a tragedy (if I can use that word--tragedies should be reserved for war torn countries etc) that all forms of print are in such trouble. Newspapers make so much available online--its a more pleasant reading experience for me to go online to NYT--I have a homepage set to about six tabs on Firefox--NYT, Google News, my Gmail, Google Reader, etc.--I guess newspapers were so accustomed to their old model they weren't sure what to do--everybody put stuff online, so they did too...without income. The same bloodshed in publishing--fine editors of years standing with superb abilities, fired, fired, fired.... I am very grateful that I got a two-book contract for my children's adventure fantasy series before this debacle, last May...but the editorial director who gave me the contract was...fired last week! Theoretically publishers could start cancelling contracts if they want...or need to. Washington Post Book World shut down recently--lack of ad pages. It was the 3rd most impt book review section in the country (NYT first, LA times 2nd). Sort of makes one nostalgic--on this snowy day in NY, for the image of the paperboy, earnest and 12 years old, on his bicycyle, tossing papers in their blue cellophane onto snowy front stoops ...Mom dusts it off, brings it inside, and opens to the advice columns ;)...Dad takes the sports section... Well, we shall see where it leads. I've been lucky thus far so counting my blessings!!!!

To: nextrade! who wrote (187559)	3/9/2009 1:22:17 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Update on publishing industry: 1) Glamour magazine is selling year-long subscriptions for $1.50 2) Sacramento Bee cutting staff but not as many as they wanted because of union 3) SF Chronicle planning to cut half their staff along with other cost saving measures such as cutting back vacation, sick time and maternity/paternity leave. The Chronicle also wants the union to let the paper outsource some work to non-union employees 4) Seattle Post-Intelligencer will soon be an online-only publication 5) The Providence Journal Co. is laying off 74 workers -- about 12 percent of its total work force. The layoffs are part of a plan disclosed in January by A.H. Belo to cut about 500 jobs -- more than 14 percent of its overall workforce -- from its media operations, which include The Providence Journal, The Dallas Morning News, and Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise. 6) Lois Draegin former editor of TV Guide (making a six-figure income) now an intern at WowOWow And movies: Sony Pictures is going to eliminate approximately 300 jobs through both layoffs and the elimination of open positions Etc.