June 9, 2017

The New York Times Offers Employee Buyouts to Beef Up Reporting Staff

Last week, in a memo from executive editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joseph Kahn, The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) offered buyouts to its newsroom employees to reduce the layers of editing, reports The Times. The idea is to replace the layers with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of an article, with another editor acting as a final check prior to publication. Currently, two of three editors review each article before it is published.

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Five on Friday: Retention Rates, Productivity Apps & Time Savers

In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, eMarketer shares why it believes consumers need choices to stop them from using ad blockers, Kissmetrics tells us how to use customer empowerment to improve customer loyalty and retention, Tubefilter shares that “YouTuber” is the most desired career (yikes!), CIO offers 9 crazy-useful PC productivity apps to simplify and organize your many tasks, and Moz explains how small digital publishers can grow their readership and save time to compete with larger publishers.

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