“Feels Like a Real Slap in the Face”: There’s New Money in Local News, Just Not at the Papers

The situation looked grim as soon as Gannett reported its quarterly earnings in early August. Gannett’s leadership warned layoffs were imminent. All week, reports of the cuts have trickled out; journalists, including some executive editors, have been laid off in New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, Indiana, and more than 20 other states. The Columbus Dispatch’s longest-serving news journalist said his job was eliminated after 31 years. The local-news carnage came just as Axios sold itself to Cox Enterprises, a privately held company that has a regional footprint in TV and radio but has largely gotten out of the local-paper business, in… Read Full Article