How Deseret Media Does News On A Reduced Staff

Salt Lake City-based Deseret Media completed its transition to a “multi-platform newsroom” recently and the company, which owns a TV station, radio station, newspaper and two websites is trying to, surprise surprise, do more with less.

The newspaper lost 85 editorial staffers in the move to the new system, or about 40 percent of the newsroom. We’re not sure how the TV and radio station fared but certainly they’re feeling the pain as well.

So what’s a media company to do? Deseret Media’s brought back an old concept: the rewrite desk.

TVNewsCheck reports

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