La imagen es de la revista Time, del 15 de Julio de 1996. El texto destaca cómo se ayudó a Boris Yeltsin a ganar las elecciones de ese año. Después se quejan.
Actualización:
Después de 40 años de periodismo militante como el de acá arriba, pasan cosas
como la de acá abajo
Así es, chicos,
el periodismo se murió; la noticia de Zero Hedge de acá abajo es un epitafio
perfecto:
Título: New York
Times Will Vacate 8 Floors In Its HQ To Generate "Significant Rental
Revenue"
Texto: Remember
when The NYT reported that its ad hoc campaign to boost revenue by selling
subscriptions in response to the vicious back and forth with Donald Trump, was
said to be a smashing success? Perhaps it was subscriptions for the crossword
puzzle because it appears the monetary success was not smashing enough, and
according to a just released note from executives Arthur Sulzberger and Mark
Thompson, the newspaper will vacate at least eight floors in its iconic
building, allowing it to "generate significant rental income" because
it is "frankly, too expensive to occupy this many floors when we don’t
truly need them."
Maybe the lesson
here is that when the newspaper business model no longer works, one can just
pivot into a REIT?
The remaining
staff will be consolidated on the remaining, redesigned floors in a "more
dynamic, modern and open workplace, one that is better suited to the
moment."
Furthermore, the
NYT publisher and CEO will lose their corner offices, which they call a
"vestige from a different era" and will "introduce more team
rooms and common spaces."
It is unclear if
NYT would distribute pink slips as part of the cost-cutting effort, however as
the letter adds, "in the end, these changes will impact every employee at
620 Eighth Ave. In the near term, we will have to move about 400 employees out
of the building to nearby office space while the first phase of work is
completed. We expect that group, which includes parts of marketing, technology,
the newsroom, news services, corporate finance and print products and services
pre-press operations, to move in the first quarter and return by the end of
2017. Your manager will notify you if your position is affected by this temporary
move. We understand and appreciate the disruption this will inevitably cause
and we will do everything in our power to mitigate it."
But aside from
all that, subscriptions are soaring, we promise.
Full memo below:
“Dear Colleagues,
When we moved
into our new building in 2007, we saw it as a modern headquarters for a modern
New York Times. We still feel that way.
But as Mark
mentioned in the State of The Times last month, after a good deal of
consideration, we have determined that the way that we use our headquarters
building needs to evolve to better match the changes you and your colleagues
have been driving across every part of the company.
The current way
we have configured our office makes us slower and less collaborative. It is
also, frankly, too expensive to occupy this many floors when we don’t truly
need them.
We’ve made the
decision to consolidate our footprint across the building to create a more
dynamic, modern and open workplace, one that is better suited to the moment.
We’re planning significant investments in a redesign of our existing space in
order to facilitate more cross-departmental collaboration.
We expect a
substantial financial benefit as well. All told, we will vacate at least eight
floors, allowing us to generate significant rental income.
We have engaged
Gensler, an architecture and interior design firm, to help us redesign our
workplace and beginning early next year, work will begin on select floors below
14. By the end of next year, we expect to have consolidated our occupancy to
that side of the building. We will keep the cafeteria and the conference rooms
on 15.
We have already
seen that changing office layouts can lead to good results. Some of the most
creative wings of the company — the Beta team, the Graphics Department and some
of our technology teams have changed their floor plans to help improve the way
they work.
The coming
redesign will introduce more team rooms and common spaces. And, we will do away
with big corner offices, like the ones you see on the 16th and 17th floors,
including, yes, the publisher and CEO’s offices. We don’t need to preserve
those vestiges from a different era, so we won’t.
In the end, these
changes will impact every employee at 620 Eighth Ave. In the near term, we will
have to move about 400 employees out of the building to nearby office space
while the first phase of work is completed. We expect that group, which
includes parts of marketing, technology, the newsroom, news services, corporate
finance and print products and services pre-press operations, to move in the
first quarter and return by the end of 2017. Your manager will notify you if
your position is affected by this temporary move. We understand and appreciate
the disruption this will inevitably cause and we will do everything in our
power to mitigate it.
Representatives
from across the company are serving on a steering committee to help us plan
these changes. They will solicit input from everyone interested in providing it
and we’re committed to keeping you fully
informed as the project plays out.
We will have more
details soon.
Thank you.
Arthur and Mark”
Perhaps
Facebook's "fact-checkers" can move into the soon to be vacant
space...
de cuando la única superpotencia se podía jactar abiertamente de su condición. todo cambio. Obama hizo la peor presidencia de eeuu desde el punto de vista de sus propios intereses y encima saltan como víctimas rusas, lo cual es un reconocimiento inconciente de su pérdida de status. el líder mundial es putin y el amo del mundo china.
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