Comments on: Patrick O’Connor laid off from L.A. Daily News http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/01/09/patrick-oconnor-laid-off-from-la-daily-news/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Rob Tornoe http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/01/09/patrick-oconnor-laid-off-from-la-daily-news/#comment-78688 Rob Tornoe Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:21:04 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=3674#comment-78688 I agree with Steve that this wasn't really a surprise, but it's still short-sighted of them, as they had a unique selling point to compete with the LA Times. But like most newspapers that have a staff cartoonist remaining, they don't think about how to properly market such a great asset that they can then monetize and gain readership from. For groups that tend to be filled with really intelligent people, newspapers by-and-large don't "think outside the box" too well. It's just sad that the first layoff in 2009 came while we were still in single-digit days in January. This isn't going to be a good year... I agree with Steve that this wasn’t really a surprise, but it’s still short-sighted of them, as they had a unique selling point to compete with the LA Times. But like most newspapers that have a staff cartoonist remaining, they don’t think about how to properly market such a great asset that they can then monetize and gain readership from.

For groups that tend to be filled with really intelligent people, newspapers by-and-large don’t “think outside the box” too well.

It’s just sad that the first layoff in 2009 came while we were still in single-digit days in January.

This isn’t going to be a good year…

]]> By: Steve Greenberg http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/01/09/patrick-oconnor-laid-off-from-la-daily-news/#comment-78686 Steve Greenberg Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:25:03 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=3674#comment-78686 This layoff isn't really a surprise, but very sad nonetheless. He's the first of 2009, and won't be the last. They're really gutting those Media News papers... This layoff isn’t really a surprise, but very sad nonetheless. He’s the first of 2009, and won’t be the last.

They’re really gutting those Media News papers…

]]> By: Dan Collins http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/01/09/patrick-oconnor-laid-off-from-la-daily-news/#comment-78681 Dan Collins Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:25:16 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=3674#comment-78681 This is sad. I know Patrick, just saw him before Christmas. He told me the newsroom was almost empty. He also said the news was being written by people in India getting news feeds from the US. How screwed up is that? Outsourcing US news writing. When are we going to stop this insanity of letting companies export our jobs? This is sad. I know Patrick, just saw him before Christmas. He told me the newsroom was almost empty. He also said the news was being written by people in India getting news feeds from the US. How screwed up is that? Outsourcing US news writing. When are we going to stop this insanity of letting companies export our jobs?

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