The Modesto Bee Closing in Modesto
This Just IN!
Hey Modesto.. Looks like the Modesto Bee will be closing their printing press here in Modesto and your local paper will be coming from Sacramento. My phone is still on fire here, but IM trying to get the latest 411 on this for you as of now! Friends, Please pray that this isn’t so. The Modesto Bee at one time had about 700 employees under their wing. We just can’t afford to lose any more jobs here locally people..
Does anyone have any information on this they can share with us!
Efren J
Here is the link from MSNBC from 7/8/09
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25576651/
From what I heard today, it is more of a realty then I would want it to be! It was on the news today! So I heard..
OK so if you don’t take the Paper, I’m thinking you should like I do.. Get informed! Get motivated, Keep our jobs local. When one person loses their job it effects us all!
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I love Modesto!
Here is is the Latest
POSTED: 2:14 pm PDT July 18, 2008
UPDATED: 2:55 pm PDT July 18, 2008
http://www.kcra.com/news/16924668/detail.html
IM so bummed about this. So many jobs, so many people have lost so much already fro our week economy.. Aw.. Golly Gee.. :(
I Love The Bee
http://www.kcra.com/news/16924668/detail.html
MODESTO, Calif. -- Eighty Modesto Bee positions may be eliminated and the paper could be printed in Sacramento come September, the president and publisher of the newspaper said Friday in a note to employees.
According to the proposed plan, The Modesto Bee would be printed on the presses of its sister paper, The Sacramento Bee.
"Although we are still working through various transition and operational details, it is clear that this move makes both financial and operational sense," Modesto Bee publisher Margaret R."
Randazzo did not immediately return a call to clarify if the affected employees would lose their jobs altogether or be reassigned.
"This change in our business model would result in the reduction of approximately 80 equivalent full-time positions," Randazzo wrote. "Again, we are still working through many transition details, so employees affected by the change would be notified of the impact on their jobs and severance package details once plans are finalized."
Mark S. Vasche, editor and senior vice president of the paper, declined to comment and referred questions to Randazzo.
Prepress and page make-up functions would still be handled in Modesto, Randazzo said.
The Idaho Statesman and The Bellingham Herald, two other McClatchy Co. newspapers, recently announced that they will be printed by nearby newspapers, Randazzo said.
The Modesto Bee is currently printed in Modesto.
"Moves such as this enable us to navigate to a more stable and prosperous future as an integrated media company continuing to service as our community's most trusted supplier of news and advertising information," Randazzo wrote.
Here is is the Latest
POSTED: 2:14 pm PDT July 18, 2008
UPDATED: 2:55 pm PDT July 18, 2008
Submitted by Efren on Fri, 2008-07-18 19:49.
