Midway reduces staff by 25 percent Massive layoffs at the Orlando Predators USG lays off 35 due to housing turndown 94 state jobs axed in Maine Las Vegas Sands to lays off 216 52 hospital jobs lost in Toms River, New Jersey Gehl lays off 19 in Madison More layoffs to come at Whitehall Industries [...]
December 16, 2008
Time Staffer becomes Biden’s PR Man
Jay Carney, the Washington Bureau Chief of Time magazine, has been named Director of Communications and Assistant to the in-coming vice president, Joe Biden. What a coincidence! Time has put Barack Obama’s face on its cover 14 times in the last two years. In light of Time Inc.’s slashing of its staff and closing down [...]
December 16, 2008
Magazines are Dying Because They Became Portable Billboards
Leave it to the fabulous Ms. Myrna Blyth, founder of More magazine and former editor of Ladies’ Home Journal, to cut through the bullshit and tell the truth. She wrote a piece for wowOwow.com yesterday that just got to the point already: “Magazine publishing, overall, is really a small business that for too long has [...]
December 16, 2008
Financial Helpline Now Open!
Yesterday The Daily News posted an article detailing a new program available to help everyday people through this financial crisis. Together with the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs and The City University of New York, The Daily News launched a “YOUR MONEY HELPLINE” that anyone can call for free financial advice. Over 250 experts will [...]
December 16, 2008
Today in Layoff Land
The ax hits Macmillan Plant in Kettering, Ohio announces layoffs All 632 Invista employees have been notified of possible layoffs Sonus lays off 50 InFocus will lay off 30 percent of its staff in Oregon Trail King in South Dakota cuts 42 workers More than 100 temps to be laid off at the University of [...]
