NY Daily News Loses Half Its Staff...

or, Tronc Owners Fire Half a Newsroom
 "As a public company, we have a fiduciary obligation to balance the interests of all of our in constituents: shareholders, employees, readers and community," Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn wrote in the firing memo.

"Interesting way to order those constituents," replied Phil Davis, a reporter at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.

Jim Rich‏ @therealjimrich

If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.

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In other news:
The NYT announced they've hired Uber whistleblower (and Maureen Dowd look-a-like) Susan Fowler Rigetti to commission, and write, stories about tech issues.  It will be interesting to see what this unconventional hire, and new wife and mother, produces for the paper in the future.

I suspect -- do forgive my cynicism -- that Fowler has already created her best piece of written work:  the blogpost alleging sexual harassment at Uber that made her  name and fortune.

“There’s something really empowering about standing up for what’s right,” Fowler Rigetti once told Time magazine. “It’s a badge of honor.”

 Good luck to all the present-day journalists currently out there...
 those who lost jobs today, and those being generously welcomed into this new profession.

ADDED: Yesterday's lucky ladies of the West Coast react:

Kara Swisher @karaswisher

Sparkly vampire scheming all night and first month now all plotted. Chomp, Silicon Valley.

and...

Susan Fowler @susanthesquark

Replying to @karaswisher

OMG GUESS WHAT WE WORK TOGETHER NOW

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