This time, it’s eight at the Pittsburg Morning Sun in Kansas.
Hat tip: The Turner Report.
Note to newspaper Web designers: Time and again, I come across newspaper Web sites that do not state anywhere on the front page the city and state in which the newspaper is located. I had to do a Google search to find out where the Morning Sun is located.
You would think an allegedly Web-savvy organization like GateHouse Media would grasp that little fact.
Tags: GateHouse Media, layoffs, Pittsburg Morning Sun, Watchdog
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They have kind of a cool feature: a page with a virtual police scanner of local emergency frequencies. I’ve seen pages from large cities where you can listen to several dedicated freqs, one at a time, but nothing like this — and never at a newspaper site:
http://www.morningsun.net/scanner/
You do have to “Click here to launch the scanner.”
Yeah, they’ve apparently been laying off people at the Journal Star like mad, according to my wife (she used to work there and hears the gossip). So far they’ve basically canned the telecom staff and shifted around a bunch of management in their circulation department.
…and to further the well-deserved smear, one of the people termed is right in the middle of a cancer battle/chemotherapy. Let’s hope she gets better before her COBRA insurance runs out.
“I had to do a Google search to find out where the Morning Sun is located.”
Why not just click “contact us” on the bottom of the page?
I missed that. Does that link tell you where they are located?