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Newsday Whacks Everyone

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 05 2008 11:40 AM

100 layoffs including *all* sports columnists -- they say 3 positions, meaning print people. I think that means Johnette Howard, Ken Davidoff (national baseball maybe?) and... could it be... Wally Matthews?

Edgy DC Dec 05 2008 11:50 AM

Kuh, wow.

Kong76 Dec 05 2008 11:50 AM

All these layoffs and unemployment announcements right around the holidays is really quite deflating. So they're gonna have a sports section with no columnists?

Edgy DC Dec 05 2008 11:57 AM

No offense to the victims, but there have been worse ideas. I assume opinion pieces will continue to come from the beat writers. What hap'd to Shaun Powell?

Gwreck Dec 05 2008 12:04 PM

This article (from Newsday) says that they are laying off [url=http://www.newsday.com/business/local/ny-bznews1206,0,367953.story:2xiyol5c]three sports columnists[/url:2xiyol5c], but not "all." According to http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/ , these are their sports columnists: Barbara Barker Jim Baumbach Neil Best Erik Boland Roderick Boone Ken Davidoff Bob Glauber Mark Herrmann Bob Herzog Johnette Howard John Jeansonne Greg Logan Wallace Matthews Steven Marcus Shaun Powell Anthony Rieber Tom Rock Gregg Sarra Tom Schlichter Arthur Staple Steve Zipay

Frayed Knot Dec 05 2008 04:00 PM

An ad in today's paper talks up that their entire baseball crew: Lennon (Met beat writer), O'Brien (Yanx) and Davidoff (league-wide) will all be reporting from the winter meetings. P.S. Some of the vets around here will remember the calls from various Met fans a bunch of years back just praying that Cablevision would buy the team. Cablevision is the new owners of Newsday.

G-Fafif Dec 06 2008 05:27 PM

The Pest (as opposed to the Snooze) [url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/12062008/business/newsday_lays_off_100_staffers__hikes_pri_142878.htm]reports[/url] Johnette Howard, Shaun Powell and Ken Davidoff are the columnists in question, and that Davidoff may return at a lower rate of pay. I'm not a fan of any of the above (Davidoff, in particular, strikes me as a Yankee hack) but I hate to see this sort of thing happen for economic reasons. Worth noting that the Pest story misspelled Powell's first name.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 06 2008 05:34 PM

What do we have to do get Wally whacked?

Edgy DC Dec 06 2008 08:10 PM

That'll teach Powell to be sober and thoughtful. Damn.

G-Fafif Dec 07 2008 09:50 AM

Davidoff's Sunday column runs as usual and he is still hyped as covering the winter meetings. Perhaps they are reconstructing his arrangement. Perhaps the Pest is not necessarily right.

themetfairy Dec 07 2008 09:59 AM

Johnette Howard wrote one of my favorite columns ever on the topic of A-Rod and his supposed demands (such as the tent, etc.). The concept of being catered to by six personal trainers named Sven who would bring double lattes on demand is still bantered around by some of my friends. I hope another local paper picks her up.

Frayed Knot Dec 07 2008 12:32 PM

Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like the NYTimes has ever replaced Murray Chass's long-running Sunday baseball cloumn. Not that they've stopped covering baseball, but his league-wide column was always the one island of baseball refuge I could climb onto each Sunday no matter how deep in the winter or how thick the Super Bowl hype. Now, not only is it not there but there doesn't seem to be a replacement either.

Number 6 Dec 07 2008 01:01 PM

Hopefully they replace it with something less grouchy and tiresome.

dgwphotography Dec 07 2008 01:09 PM

="Frayed Knot":1qpdh00m]Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like the NYTimes has ever replaced Murray Chass's long-running Sunday baseball cloumn. Not that they've stopped covering baseball, but his league-wide column was always the one island of baseball refuge I could climb onto each Sunday no matter how deep in the winter or how thick the Super Bowl hype. Now, not only is it not there but there doesn't seem to be a replacement either.[/quote:1qpdh00m] Murray still writes a regular column [url=http://www.murraychass.com/:1qpdh00m]here[/url:1qpdh00m] Frayed Knot Dec 07 2008 02:04 PM Yeah, I knew Chass was still working. It just suxx that the Times doesn't think it's important to run a weekly baseball column in their Sunday edition since they parted ways w/Chass. G-Fafif Dec 07 2008 08:01 PM Jack Curry has filled Chass' role, but now that you mention it, the weekly column doesn't seem to be a staple.