Former LA Times Columnist Mark Heisler on the High Price of Cost Cutting
In a column for TruthDig, veteran sportswriter Mark Heisler, laid off last month from the LA Times, speaks plainly about the troubles facing the newspaper industry. Of particular interest, when print struggles to maintain relevance in the Internet age, is how management’s efforts to save money came at the cost of real reporting:
Newspapers entered the computer age in the ’70s and ’80s with promises of later deadlines that would give us more time to report, think through and write our stories.
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