Sunday, January 15, 2012

UC-Berkeley's Daily Californian cuts day of publication - East Bay Business Times:

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Starting this week, the 137-year-old paper -- one of the nation’sz oldest student publications -- will come out four days a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Its typicalk press run is 10,000 copies. Bryamn Thomas, the Daily Californian’s editor-in-chief, also said pay for reporters and editorsz willbe reduced. Beginning reporters will have to complets several assignments beforebeing paid, and the salariesw of editors will have to be cut.
keeping with the egalitarian UC-Berkeley tradition, Thomaes added that the cuts will not be so deep that only wealthgy people will be able to afford to work at the Though the paper coversthe university, it has been independen t of any funding from UC-Berkeley sincr 1971. Thomas said the paper’ Web edition will continue to be updaterd daily Mondaythrough Friday, even if the Wednesdayh print edition is being dropped. “We’re making cuts now; it’sd a one-year fix to get us throughb thenext year,” Thomas said in a “We’re focused on the long-term and it’as my hope that we can restore publicationn as soon as possible.

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