To: Steven Newhouse, President
Save the New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville Newspapers
If you won't publish 7 days a week, I won't buy your newspaper. Cutting newsrooms by half means the public will have half as much information about the critical issues facing our cities and world. Unless your decision is revised, on September 30th, I will no longer support your papers.
Why is this important?
Tell the Newhouse Family, we don't need a Some-Times Picayune: If you don't publish 7 days a week, we won't buy your papers!
The Gulf South cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville will be without daily newspapers on Sept. 30th, and the newsrooms of those entities will be cut by as much as half as the Newhouse family seeks greater profits from their newspaper chain. In New Orleans, the multiple Pulitzer winning newsroom saw 84 people fired yesterday, 49% of the staff. Despite promising more quality reporting after transitioning to primarily digital publishing, Newhouse family leadership is ignoring the significant digital divide which exists in New Orleans, as well as the simple truth that you can only do less reporting with fewer reporters.
The Gulf South cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville will be without daily newspapers on Sept. 30th, and the newsrooms of those entities will be cut by as much as half as the Newhouse family seeks greater profits from their newspaper chain. In New Orleans, the multiple Pulitzer winning newsroom saw 84 people fired yesterday, 49% of the staff. Despite promising more quality reporting after transitioning to primarily digital publishing, Newhouse family leadership is ignoring the significant digital divide which exists in New Orleans, as well as the simple truth that you can only do less reporting with fewer reporters.