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Fired Newspaper Reporters Still Reporting–For Fired Newspaper Employee Blog

in Media on December 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm PT

What happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers? They report on their own firings. That’s what’s happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about–Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied up about 1,000 cuts just in this round alone.