Eric Deggans reports that CBS Radio and Creative Loafing were busy laying people off the week before Christmas. Mason Dixon is the only weekday staffer to survive cuts at Q105: four personalities were cut at the station, including Dixon’s longtime partner Bill Connolly (at left), JoJo Walker, Rico Blanco and Mike Reeves. On the same [...]
It turns out that Media General laid off another 80 people this week, including 18 from the Tampa Tribune newsroom. That newspapers are in dire straits is not news. Reporters are losing jobs across the nation as they trim the fat. But our local daily is completely cutting out all of the marble and cleaving the [...]
Eric Deggans is reporting that snarky columnist Dan Ruth has been let go by the Tampa Tribune. It’s just the latest in a string of layoffs of well known writers at the Tribune: Over the years, staff reductions and voluntary departures have taken some well-known names from the Tribune’s roster, including movie crtic Bob Ross, classical [...]
