Paul Huntsman, owner of The Tribune (and currently of myself), gave us the news. Short version: Revenue and print subscriptions are falling off faster than expected. The industry is changing. Drastic measures will be needed in the next couple of weeks.
We’re newspaper people. We’re accustomed to gloom and doom. We had already heard this stuff from previous bosses, but this was the new and improved version.
Yeah, it was grim. But it was also comforting to have an owner with the personal fortitude to give us the news directly to our faces.