The recent firings and staff changes at the Press-Telegram have been closely followed and documented by nearly every local news outlet. Sunday’s edition of the L.A. Times contains an interesting account of the story, from the perspective of Dennis McDougal, a former PT employee.
In one passage, McDougal writes:
The L.A. Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times are also cutting their newsroom staffs through buyouts, but the cutbacks in coverage seem less evident than in smaller papers like the P-T. But as in Major League Baseball, it’s the triple-A teams of journalism — the Press-Telegrams — that indicate where the future lies. Nobody buys a newspaper that is unable to report the news.
Read the article here.