When did you realize you were on a sinking ship? Looking back, I think it was around 2002. I was a news page designer at The Times of Northwest Indiana and the paper’s higher-ups announced that the folks who came by each week to water and care for the plants would not be coming back. [...]

This is the most depressing thing I have heard in some time. The San Jose Mercury News announced on Wednesday afternoon that they will be laying off nine employees. Newsroom leaders said they are looking for volunteers by 5 p.m. Thursday, and employees will be laid off on Friday. Paper Cuts was updated with news [...]

I’m very familiar with the layoffs and buyouts our industry is going through — we’re quickly closing in on the 5,000 mark. So I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened: Copy editing and design jobs are being outsourced overseas. For some time I’ve expected one of the larger newspaper companies [...]

I’ve been a big supporter of Tribune Co.’s new leader Sam Zell. He’s approaching newspapers as a business, which I think is smart, and often misunderstood, especially in newsrooms. But his press release style needs work. In announcing the promotion of Kim Johnson, new senior vice president of local sales, the release says Johnson is [...]

J. Peder Zane is a columnist for the News & Observer — proving that newspapers can be topical, can use multimedia to tell stories and can be downright fun. I talked to the star of this afternoon: How did you come up with the video? After (Barack Obama’s) Tuesday’s night speech, an editor suggested we [...]