The year of the ax

Of note in Gannett Blog:
Rick Jensen, the publisher of the Daily Times (a Salisbury, Maryland Gannett newspaper) e-mailed his staff Wednesday a memo that said “Across Gannett’s Community Publishing division, about 1,000 positions will be eliminated — about 3% of the workforce,” and the memo says. “Of the 1,000 positions, about 600 employees will be laid off.”
     It was a little more than a year ago that Gannett had a summertime purge of positions nationwide. Expect the sales of Tums to rise where Gannett is the hometown paper.