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Etaoin Shrdlu: Pain & Promises at McClatchy

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This is a time of considerable pain at McClatchy, most especially for the 1,400 people who are being told their jobs are gone. That amounts to about 10% of the full-time equivalent workforce at our company. Amongst…

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Etaoin Shrdlu: McClatchy’s punctuated evolution

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Newspaper people nowadays are understandably consumed with questions and debates about the future of their business, often conflating that with the fate of journalism or even democracy itself. That linkage is not…

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Lightening and lightening bugs

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In discussions with a charming 11-year old over the holiday, I mentioned the truth of Mark Twain’s observation that “the difference between the right word and almost the right word in the difference between lightening…

Nostalgia is not your friend

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There’s much to admire in the passion and commitment displayed by comments posted here and elsewhere by journalists worried about their jobs, their profession and even their country. But there is much to fear in how…

If it’s raining, learn to work wet and then get dry

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Great comments have been arriving here with increasing frequency over recent weeks. Last night two particularly good ones — Jim Richardson (again) and Anonymous 5:26pm — moved me to this longer reply.(I’m now working…