Truemors
NowPublic Staff Editors
We wanted to let you know about some staff changes that have been taking place at NowPublic over the past few days. As you may have noticed, four staff editors are no longer on the site. (I've also mentioned this to some people separately via private message.)
Like many other companies in our situation NowPublic has had to make some reductions to our staff levels to adjust to the current global financial conditions. As a result we made the difficult decision to lose some very talented members of the editorial team. Obviously we are very sorry to see them go and I hope you will join us in wishing them all well.
Rest assured that the editorial team is committed to doing our best with our reduced numbers. We also continue to strongly believe that participatory media remains one of the brightest and most promising areas of the media landscape and that sites like NowPublic are increasingly important as mainstream media wrestles with its own issues of relevance and economic viability.
If you need to get in touch with one of the staff editors, please message one of us as below.
Thanks.
at 17:50 on March 5th, 2009
Thank you Rachel for the info and update. Much appreciated.
Sorry for the cut backs and for those that are now gone. Best wishes is the least one can do and I wish more could be done.
at 23:27 on March 6th, 2009
Rachel, thank you for letting us know. I wish everyone continued success in their endeavors, keeping in mind that "when one door closes, another one opens."
at 10:03 on March 10th, 2009
This is very sad news. But I have great belief in the people who are moving on to other things... They are all amazingly talented, and it will be great to see what they do next. It is such a huge bummer that these types of cut backs are happening... in the mainstream media, all we're hearing about are the massive corporations who are laying off thousands, and hardly anything about the small businesses who are having to let people go. The effect on those people is just as great.
at 17:17 on November 4th, 2009
the financial crisis is not a factor here. why? the sale of nowpublic without prior consensual knowledge of the content providers, editors and writers, nixes the all-too-common financial crisis argument?
were the fired members of the editorial staff not in agreement with the sale as it is nowv at least temporarily, and therefore let go? why did they go at this time, in such numbers, all at once? details please.
at 17:19 on November 4th, 2009
Quote from #1: Paschen at 17:50 on March 5th, 2009
Wait, isnt the firing realted to the sale of nowpublic, not the recession?
at 08:10 on November 5th, 2009
Quote from #5: CJist at 17:19 on November 4th, 2009
Read the date stamp on the announcement above, and that should answer your question.