{"id":589,"date":"2009-03-14T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/14\/newspaper-woes-hit-the-plattsburgh-press-republican\/"},"modified":"2009-03-14T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:28:00","slug":"newspaper-woes-hit-the-plattsburgh-press-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/14\/newspaper-woes-hit-the-plattsburgh-press-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper woes hit the Plattsburgh Press-Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers across the U.S. are in freefall:  with some closing, others eliminating whole sections, going entirely on-line, or laying off staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Plattsburgh daily, the Press-Republican, announced over the weekend that it&#8217;s asking all full-time staff to take five unpaid leave days in the next quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/local_story_072223635.html\">Joe LoTemplio described the move<\/a> as &#8220;part of a corporate cost-cutting measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision was made by the paper&#8217;s owner, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Alabama, and will affect all 100-plus papers in the group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<blockquote><p>P-R Publisher Robert Parks said that in a letter to employees, CNHI President and CEO Donna Barrett stated, &#8220;The poor economy continues to negatively impact businesses across the company, including those we rely on for advertising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Until we see meaningful recovery in the economy, we must reduce expenses while maintaining our ability to serve our customers and readers.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, the P-R hasn&#8217;t laid off workers, though some jobs have been cut through attrition.  The paper is one of the region&#8217;s largest private employers, with around 130 workers.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers across the U.S. are in freefall: with some closing, others eliminating whole sections, going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}