Following up on what I was talking about earlier today, just read this article from the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

“Half of the 1,326 people who work at The Tampa Tribune and WFLA-Channel 8 have been offered a voluntary separation package Monday as the media group’s parent company looks to trim costs in what it describes as a “difficult economic environment.”

The saddest part is that this really doesn’t surprise me. The thing that is scary is that I think this is going to happen more and more often, in markets all across the country. Maybe not half the employees, but a fair number of them.

But this goes back to the question I was asking earlier, what happens to all these people without jobs now? Where do they go? What happens to everyone else? Will the people in Tampa fill these jobs with younger and cheaper talent, or will all these jobs just go away.

It would not surprise me to see some stations simply take all its money and put it all into on-line coverage, and forget about the coverage on the radio, in the physical newspaper, and on the television.

Tags: newspapers, Tampa

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