NY Times Insider: Multi-Million Dollar Shortfall Causing Drastic Cuts | New York Observer.
A soap opera with hints of gender bias thrown in…
According to a source on the edit side familiar with Mr. Thompson’s thinking, taking away some of Ms. Warren’s responsibilities boiled down to digital growth. “Mark’s thing is to get digital to 3 million [subscribers] and we’re stuck at 800,000.” Ms. Warren declined to accept a job with half her former responsibilities and joined Ms. Abramson and Ms. Robinson plus deputy editorial page editor Carla Robbins in a parade of high-profile women who have either been fired or seen their authority slashed. Early last month, yet another high-profile female executive, chief consumer officer Yasmin Namini, said goodbye as well.
That’s five top female executives who were unceremoniously separated from service. Was there any truth to Ms. Abramson’s claim of gender bias?
The source told the Observer that Ms. Abramson’s complaint about alleged gender-based pay inequity, ferociously batted down by Mr. Sulzberger himself, was rearing its head in a subtler way—not necessarily by paying women less for the same job, but by paying men the same for lesser jobs.
Wonder how the Boulder Daily Camera is fairing these days? I did notice awhile back that Erika Stutzman left on short notice.
I rarely visit the Camera website since as a non-subscriber the mobile website is useless and the regular website works as long as it’s visited infrequently. I applaud them for trying to make money on the digital side, it just won’t be my money, at least not in any version of the future I can possibly imagine.
The DC will block you less if you use “private browsing” or “incognito” mode, since the browser disposes of all cookies and history when you leave it.
Re. the NYT
Seems like a good time to pull up the popcorn…