Friday, March 27, 2009

Houston Chronicle: Alienating Readers Day After Day

So you're the Houston Chronicle, and you've just laid off what appears to be most of your reporting and sales staff. What do you do next?

If you answered raise subscription and newsstand prices, you win. You don't win anything, but still, you were right.

A friend of mine sent me a memo he received from his employer who pays for their subscriptions out of their pay. The memo stated that subscription rates were rising, and that employees should make it known whether they wanted to keep their subscriptions.

But who knows, maybe this will rate increase will allow the Chron to add a beat reporter for TSU.

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