• . A year after the merger, Paid Content is reporting coming “major job losses.” The merged companies have 50,000 staff in 93 countries and will reduce headcount by eliminating duplication.
  • Journal Register Shareholder Wants To Invest $25 Million In Company— If Lenders Restructure. The details of the story are horrendous: the newspaper company’s stock is down to 17 cents a share and still drifting down, and it has filed with the SEC saying “it risks violating a debt covenant come late July, barring some change.”
  • Some thoughts on classifieds and Seesmic. Steve Outing isn’t sure that Seesmic is the right platform for video classifieds, but it’s the right idea. Publishers need to move on this, I think, whether it’s Seesmic or something else.
  • . Alan Mutter’s lede: “With global warming and soaring gasoline prices focusing consumer, political and eventually regulatory interest on environmental sustainability and energy consumption, people looking to be kinder to Mother Earth are going to start wondering about the impact their daily paper makes on the environment. They might not like what they learn.” I’ve felt for a while now that this is a piper the industry is going to have to pay. (Problem with Alan’s post: he embedded a video that can’t be viewed outside the U.S.)
  • . The drop hasn’t hit small- and medium-sized sites. Yet.

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