Layoffs imminent at The Philadelphia Inquirer - expected to cut 17% of newsroom staff

Posted on January 4, 2007
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Amounting to 68-71 employees. The International Herald Tribune reports that the move follows the sell-off of the title by Knight Ridder to McClatchy who subsequently sold to a group of local businessmen.  The move has been closely scrutinised to determine whether a local and privately held ownership (rather than centralised and corporate) could work.  

But things changed over the summer as advertising revenue for papers across the country plummeted and circulation continued its years-long decline. At The Inquirer, the consolidation of local department stores and telecommunications companies has meant fewer ads, with revenue falling 10 percent in September 2006, from September 2005.

Daily circulation fell 7.6 percent, to 330,000, in the last year. Sunday circulation was down 4.5 percent, to 682,000, in the same period.

Barschak pays hefty price for art

Posted on November 24, 2003
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The BBC reports that Aaron Barschak has been jailed for 28 days for throwing paint over a Turner Prize nominated artist. The sentence came despite claims that he was “collaborating” with Jake Chapman and his brother, Dinos.

In police interviews after his arrest, he said he had “incorporated” Mr Chapman into a work of art of his own, adding: “I painted him.”

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Here’s Barschak socialising with friends as captured by a PhotoBlogger during the Edinburgh Festival.

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