Posted February 15th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
On Sundays, WM and I go to Starbucks for breakfast, where I purchase a Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte (3 points), a Vanilla Mini Sprinkle Donut (3 points) and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hold your horses…of course I subscribe to the C-P, but I do buy the Inky on Sundays so I know what advertisers to shun. [...]
Tags: ereaders, newspapers
Posted November 17th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
My nine year anniversary at the newspaper was yesterday.
I begin work at 9am. Most of the rest of the non-news folks start at 8:30am. I’m not even sure why I’m a 9:00 start, but I cherish the extra sleep. Take a look at the map below, which compares where I had to park at [...]
Tags: layoffs, newspapers
Posted October 9th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
So, Boss gave his two week notice on Monday. He’s leaving the venerable newspaper biz. Can’t really say that I blame him, given the current situation. I wish him well. I’ll miss working with him. He’s good people.
Longtime readers will remember that once upon a time, I had his job, and he worked for me. [...]
Tags: blogher, career, newspapers
Posted June 11th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
Gannett Freezes Employee Pensions, Ups 401(k)
So yeah…there’s a lot of negative talk out there about the newspaper industry. And yeah…everytime I get an email from the CEO I cringe because it’s usually bad news. But I believe…I really believe…that the pendulum will start to swing back in the other direction, we’ll all find [...]
Tags: economy, gannett, newspapers