WSJ: Gannett to cut hundreds more

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:13 am

The Wall Street Journal reports that Tennessean parent Gannett will lay off at least 1,000 workers in the coming days.

The impending move, which follows several aggressive cost-cutting efforts by Gannett over the past year or so, reflects the gloomy near-term outlook for an advertising recovery. The publisher cut 4,600 jobs last year and followed that by requiring most of its remaining employees to take unpaid leave in the first and second quarters.

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Surgeons on tour

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on January 12, 2009 at 11:22 pm

A Franklin resident is the face of a Wall Street Journal piece on locum tenens doctors traveling the land in search of operations.

“I’d much prefer to be in my hospital in my little town,” says Dr. Peppers, who is now licensed in five states. “But I don’t see how that’s possible.”

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The Journal on the ‘other’ U.S. auto industry

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 30, 2008 at 11:33 pm

A primer and some good cocktail-party stats on the future of auto manufacturing in the United States from The Wall Street Journal’s opinion team.

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Tags: automotive industry, General Motors Corp., manufacturing, Nissan North America Inc., The Wall Street Journal