They’re not really talking about it on the AnnArbor.com site, but on Friday they laid off 14 employees. According to Michigan Radio, this leaves about 20 or so people in their newsroom. (The old Ann Arbor News, from what I’m told, had approximately 75 reporters in their newsroom.) Among those let go were lead blogger […]
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AnnArbor.com cuts staff considerably, laying off 14
Washtenaw school enhancement millage looking unlikely
With almost 63% of precincts reporting, it looks as though the ballot initiative to increase funding for our Washtenaw County schools is going to fail. (Presently, it looks as though 60% of Washtenaw voters voted against the measure.) Had the 5 year, 2 mill tax passed, we would have raised on the order of $30 […]
AnnArbor.com – where news breaks
In case you missed it, Time magazine ran a feature a few days ago entitled What Happens When a Town Loses Its Newspaper? The town in question, as you might have guessed, is Ann Arbor, which, according to Time is “the first big town to lose its daily paper.” Here’s a clip: ….The answer is […]
Ignite Ann Arbor
In 2006, in Seattle, as the story goes, two technology geeks – Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis – got the idea to take the Japanese phenomena known as Pecha Kucha and repackage it for technologists and DIYers. They called the event, sponsored by O’Reilly Media and Make magazine, Ignite, and, since then, it’s been growing […]