And seven now are gone in Nashville. Nashville Chatter Class has the story.
Nashville media giant Southcomm announced a new round of layoffs today, including arguably the state’s most popular political blogger.
The company, which owns the Nashville Scene, the City Paper and NashvillePost.com, has been steadily laying off employees since 2008.
Most of today’s layoffs came on the City Paper side. Probably the biggest name to go in the latest round is political blogger A.C. Kleinheider who penned the popular Post Politics blog. Other victims of the layoff include veteran Nashville journalist Vince Troia, the City Paper’s managing editor, senior writer Ron Wynn and Tennessee Titans reporter Terry McCormick. McCormick is said to account for a large portion of the newspaper’s web traffic
“It was a blood bath,” said one source said.
After losing legal notices, the company says they had to shave off $300,000 dollars. They lost the revenue to the new owners of The Westview, previously in the Bellevue area.
The Memphis Daily News recently bought the paper and plans to take the paper countywide.
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