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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Fired Newspaper Reporters Still Reporting–For Fired Newspaper Employee Blog

What happens when a large company full of reporters fires hundreds of its workers? They report on their own firings. That’s what’s happening at Gannett Blog, where former Gannett employee Jim Hopkins is asking other former Gannett employees to share the details of their layoffs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them to talk about–Hopkins, via a network of Gannett tipsters, has tallied up about 1,000 cuts just in this round alone.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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