{"id":19039,"date":"2019-01-25T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=19039"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:34:13","slug":"doom-or-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/25\/doom-or-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom Or Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN\/Business<\/strong><\/em> has a depressing report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wednesday served as a harbinger of what’s in store for the industry, with HuffPost’s parent company Verizon announcing a 7% cut to staff in its media division, a portfolio that also includes Yahoo and AOL. Within hours of that news breaking, BuzzFeed confirmed that it will lay off 15% of its staff. And journalists at Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, shared grim stories throughout the day on Wednesday as the company shed dozens of staffers throughout the country.<\/p>\n

In all, the media industry lost about 1,000 jobs nationwide this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amidst the wailing of other members of the free press and the sadness for those affected, it occurs to me:<\/p>\n

If there’s some billionaire who wants to run a media company, this might be an opportunity<\/em>. Experienced personnel who want to succeed, geographically distributed, and a chance to start from the ground up. It sounds like a step on the ladder to me.<\/p>\n

I just don’t happen to have the sort of cash sitting around. But if I did?<\/p>\n

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My thanks to my Arts Editor who whipped this right up. She’s also volunteered to revive the position of copy-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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