Nearly 25% of Arizona Daily Star newsroom laid off https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042423_star_layoffs/nearly-25-arizona-daily-star-newsroom-laid-off/
From the top editor on down, the Arizona Daily Star staff was cut by nearly one-quarter on Monday, as the newspaper's corporate chain owners told local journalists they were being laid off.
#Tucson #Arizona
Local news matters, and fossil chain media giants are squeezing it to death all over the country — including here in Tucson.
This is a bad day for our community, and especially for these great journalists, their families, and their colleagues.
@TucsonSentinel Sad but all too typical these days. I subscribed to the Daily Star when I was a grad student at U of A in the ‘90s.
I'm so tired of this shit. It's more profitable for a handful of people to run a company into the ground than to operate at a profit.
The system is broken.
@TucsonSentinel “Last year, despite business pressures, the Star made nearly $9 million in profit on $34 million in revenues. Following that fiscal year 2022 performance, the Tucson newspaper operation pulled in another $2.5 million on nearly $9 million in revenues between the end of September and Christmas”
This isn’t about losing money, it’s about greed. I pay for a subscription to support local news and now I feel like a sucker.
@TucsonSentinel the key word being CORPORATE.
@TucsonSentinel
Protecting our fourth estate is part and parcel of protecting our democratic rule-of-law, #JustSayin