{"id":3587,"date":"2019-10-11T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2019-10-11T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:51:11","slug":"newspaper-reporters-demonstrate-at-the-ledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/11\/newspaper-reporters-demonstrate-at-the-ledger\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper reporters demonstrate at the Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Big Newspapers are in crisis: budgets are being cut,\nreporters are getting laid off, and large media conglomerates are merging and\neven shuttering some newspapers completely. So unionized reporters are fighting\nback to try to save their jobs and strengthen journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their lunch hour Thursday, reporters from The Ledger<\/a> in Lakeland demonstrated\nas part of a nationwide \u201cday of action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GateHouse layoffs affect Lakeland Ledger, maybe 200 jobs nationwide only 15 left in Ledger newsroom to cover Polk County.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kimberly Moore, a Ledger reporter. \u201cWe are at the\ncorner of Lime Street and Sykes Boulevard in Lakeland. And there\u2019s about half a\ndozen reporters and a photographer from The Ledger standing here on\nthe corner holding up signs. Some of them say, \u2018Honk if you love The\nLedger.\u2019 Some say, \u2018tell @Gatehouse_media no more layoffs.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast May we laid off a couple of editors and a\nphotographer. We\u2019re down to, I think, about 15 people in our newsroom now. And\nthat\u2019s down from a high of about 100 maybe 15 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what effect does that have when you had 100, roughly,\nreporters and now you\u2019re down to 15? How does that affect how you cover local\nnews?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, things just don\u2019t get covered anymore. We\u2019re a vital part of this community and have been for more than a hundred years. It\u2019s a frightening time in journalism when things are going uncovered. City Commission meetings in Polk County, we just kind of take a cursory glance at their agenda and try and figure out if there\u2019s something going. But you and I both know, as reporters, that you really have to go to those meetings. You really have to hear the discussion, hear what concerns people, hear what concerns commissioners, in order to cover it properly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to Robert Anderson President \/ CEO \/ Publisher of the newest hyperlocal in Lakeland, Lakeland Gazette<\/a>. He said, \u201cGateHouse and Gannett are in 100% crisis mode and continue to lose readership and revenue to the hyperlocal model of news.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere do Millennials and Generation X get their news\u2026. their phone, tablets and they live in the social media world, the printed paper will be dead in less than 10 years.\u201d, said Anderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson went on to say, \u201cCurrently we own and operate three hyperlocals in the United States with a readership of over 8 million per month. The numbers speak for themselves.\u201d \u201cGateHouse and Gannett are in it for the money, we, on the other hand, are not. We look for partners that bring value to our readers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In ten years of business, I have never layoff an employee,” said Anderson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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