The expected 15 percent of staff, but Ann Caulkins’ announcement says that amounts to 60 full-timers and 22 part-timers. Don’t know about the math there, given the info.
Does that really mean that the Uptown paper is now down to about 400 employees? I can’t make sense of the numbers without the big-picture figure. Especially confusing is the newsroom, where 19 full-timers and 11 part-timers have taken the corporate gas-pipe. Given that almost all of Rock Hill’s pre and post-production was moved to Tryon Street as that paper shed staff, the CLT reporters generating the copy had to lose some headcount.
Guess we’ll see what trickles out in the aftermath. Ugly.
Update: Is it just me, or have comments been disabled on the page carrying the announcement? I sometimes cannot tell given all my de-scripting safeguards.
Update II: The latest ver of the story adds an additional 14 full-time newsroom employees who are being offered a transition to part-time work. Color me very confused on how that counts towards the overall reductions.
Update III: Pretty amazing shot of the newsroom at zero hour yesterday.
