New York tabloid known for outlandish anti-Trump covers axes half its newsroom staff
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The New York Daily News – which has become infamous for over-the-top covers mocking the president – laid off half of its newsroom staff on Monday despite calls from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the tabloid to reconsider.
Employees received an email on Monday explaining that the Tronc-owned paper is “fundamentally restructuring” to focus on its digital audience.
“We are reducing today the size of the editorial team by approximately 50 percent and re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news – especially in areas of crime, civil justice and public responsibility,” the memo, which was obtained by Fox News, stated.
The tabloid’s human resources department promised to reach out to all affected employees by the end of the day on Monday and layoffs are effective immediately, but exiting staffers will be paid for the next 90 days.
“The decisions being announced today reflect the realities of our business and the need to adapt an ever-changing media environment,” the memo continued. “They are not a reflection on the significant talent that is leaving today.
The Daily News has become known for its outlandish, anti-Trump cover images. The paper recently featured an illustration depicting Trump as a Supreme Court justice with the headline, "We Are F*#%’d.” The paper has also depicted Trump as numerous variations of a clown, a racist, “nuts,” the “anti-Christ” and even the poop emoji.
The tabloid called Trump voters “mindless zombies” and categorized Trump a “Dead Clown Walking” when he failed to win the Iowa caucus in 2016.
Cuomo tweeted a statement urging parent-company Tronc to “reconsider this drastic move,” because it will “devastate many households and hurt an important New York institution and one of our nation’s journalism giants.”
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The silly Fox News article that is the seed is determined to lay all the Daily News troubles on the fact that it is anti-Trump.
Flash - their circulation was steadily declining long before Trump came along.
Unlike the NY Times, the Daily News is not a national newspaper, it depends on sales in the greater NY area. There are three other major daily newspapers there , and probably not enough print readership to go around anymore.
Governor Cuomo is probably distressed by the possibility that New York City will be seen as not able to support four dailies with the accompanying loss in their civic swagger.
Blame it on the internet and mobile devices.
Instead of shooting from the hip by attacking the seed's messenger, you should have done a simple Internet search. If you had, you would have learned that left-wing sources reported the same information:
Flash - So have the NYT and other papers. Your point?
Instead of shooting from the hip by attacking the seed's messenger, you should have done a simple Internet search. If you had, you would have learned that left-wing sources reported the same information:
So you are telling me that if I open those three links they are all going to tell me that the Daily News is losing readers because they attack Donald Trump . OK, I'll bite.
The word Trump does not appear in this article.
The word Trump does not appear in this article either.
Three strikes and you're out.
You made this too easy for me, John. Please remember to do some research before trying to one-up me again.
You didn't open an 2015 embedded link in that 7/23/2018 article, John.
You did not see the front page photograph the Daily Beast used for its article and whose name is there. You also didn't look at the comments and other photos.
Once again, you didn't open the embeds.
No, John ... I scored a bases loaded home run.
Have a good evening!
You may be out too. Your premise was false. This seed NEVER said that the paper was failing because of it's Trump bashing. It only made mention of the glaring fact that the paper had gone that far from what a News Paper should be doing, which is reporting on the news.
Exactly, Vic. But since John presented an irrelevant comment about the seed, I broke it down for him in comment 5.1.1 .
ROFL. You want to claim that something that is not in the articles that you gave me links to proves your "point".
Brilliant !
If these three sources wanted to make the point that the Fox News article in the seed did, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SO!
Obviously they didnt think mentioning Trump in relation to this story was that important.
The information is in the articles I provided, John, and and as I showed you is embedded within those articles. It's not my fault that you didn't take the time to open them and read them.
That sounds accurate, although I must say that the observation is rather low-hanging fruit.