December
5
Cutting Back: THR and LAT Tighten Up
So the cutbacks continue across the entertainment industry and journalism. It's depressing to watch one's colleagues worry about their jobs as they struggle to survive the brutal combo of the crashing economy and the transition to the Internet.
Nowhere is that more evident than at the LATimes, which is looking to add a new job amid all the downsizing: an entertainment editor capable of wrangling the disparate cultures of the combined Calendar, Business and online staffs. I don't envy that person, whoever it is.
That's because the print people look down on online people, the calendar has an entirely different approach to covering the entertainment industry than the business section--and more than ever there is pressure on everyone to file more and more stories. The Big Picture columnist Patrick Goldstein has adapted to the faster pace of blogging with commendable zeal, but has wrestled with his slower print brethren over stories. In one case, one LAT business writer was furious when Goldstein insisted on going forward on his blog with a story that had been in the works for weeks--and even used their specially created art.
Survival of the fittest right now may favor the fastest.
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