Holy Cow!
Tribune, WFLA Staffs Offered Voluntary Separation Deals
The Florida Communications Group said today it is offering voluntary separations, including severance packages, to about half its 1,326 employees, including those with The Tampa Tribune and WFLA, News Channel 8.
The program is aimed at reducing staff and other costs in a difficult economic environment in the Tampa Bay area, said John Schueler, president of Florida Communications Group, which oversees the operation of The Tribune, WFLA, TBO.com and other Florida media outlets.
Schueler said the program includes severance packages depending on years of service with the company for eligible employees.
For example, some employees would be eligible for severance up to 39 weeks. Schueler said that if not enough employees accept the severance offer, layoffs are possible.
No word on Media General’s website.
This is the end ...
1 year ago
So the plan is for Denise “Hatchet Lady” Palmer to further reduce the news staff so that the news coverage will be even less thorough and less competitive, and we’ll have even less of a reason to buy the paper (and advertisers will have less reason to pony up)?
Way to make print media even less viable!
Mother Trib eats her own … again!
And Captain D continues to dismantle a once important and influential newspaper.
Great strategic thinking there, Dee!
John F
1 year ago
It’s a joke. Media General is trying to avoid a proxy fight by boosting their stock prices. The problem is the status quo at Media General has negatively affected the Tribune and WFLA.
They wasted money trying to stop the Times from running a newspaper called tbt* — a variation of Tampa Bay Times. Yet the4y have so far reduced their coverage and quality of their coverage that they barely cover Tampa, let alone appeal to the entire region that is Tampa Bay.
I got a solution for Media General — Sell the Trib, WFLA and TBO.com to another media cologmagnet or even the Poynter Institute. You don’t serve the readers interest and haven’t for a long time, you serve the interest of the stock holders alone and they would profit from this more than retaining the company’s “Crown jewel”
The Carl
1 year ago
Jiminy Christmas, as Chucky Gruden would say! Companies like MG talk a good game about how “100% of our assets go home to their families every day.” So now this is merely an asset liquidation? Look for your favorite columnists and TV personalities working at the mall very soon.
Pam
1 year ago
Does this mean Steve Otto will join Sticks soon as a contributor like Judy Hill and Bob Ross?
Junior
1 year ago
They just want us to be illiterate.and not have any smarts,especially in a presidential election year.