SF Chronicle to Lay off 1/4th of Reporters

Confirming reports that it was losing about $1 million a week, the San Francisco Chronicle announced this Saturday night that it would lay off one-fourth of it's editorial staff, or 80 reporters by the end of the summer.

Comments

[Jeremiah Owyang]

Oh wow, that's sad.

[Curt]

Rosenthiel says, "25 percent of what goes on in the Bay Area won't be covered. It will happen in the dark." Hardly. Bloggers are already covering. It's just a matter of the public at large--those who aren't already doing it--adapting themselves to new ways of aggregating that "dark" material that a quarter of the Bay Area universe is apparently made of.

[TryToSolve]

80 new bloggers - just in case SF didn't have enough already :)

[Mark Proffitt]

As others mentioned, the 25% of things that had been covered by SF reporters won't go uncovered. Those things will be covered a different way.

As I point out in "Where are the high paying jobs?" The high paying jobs aren't moving somewhere else they are disappearing altogether. And jobs disappearing is really what we all want.