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Layoffs at the Voice

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  • 08-10-2008 12:09am
    #1
    manonthestreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭


    Saw on the Kilkenny Tread that there are seven layed off in the Kilkenny Voice today, the mother paper of the Galway Voice. Seems only a matter of time before the Galway one goes belly-up as well. Staff are preparing to jump ship. Must be losing tens of thousands.:eek:


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    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    You do seem to have quite the preternatural obsession with provincial newspapers.

    Then again, I suppose the competition is so bitter because the stakes are so low...


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    Fey!
    Registered Users Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Do you do anything other than gossip about what media outlet is about to go belly up?

    Who are you, and which paper do you work for?


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    #4
    manonthestreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭manonthestreet


    i thought it would be obvoius.:eek:


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    s_carnage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    manonthestreet wrote: »
    i thought it would be obvoius.:eek:

    Your the man on the street selling the big issue....right?!?!


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    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.voicenewspapers.ie/
    Their website doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

    I read this paper for the first time this week - there was a big pile at the door into work. There wasn't much in it.

    It's gone free, instead of charging a couple of euro, which I think is a great idea and I'm surprised no-one has thought of sooner.


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    SimpleSam06
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Their website doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

    "This website is temporarily down, please come again soon... "

    Indeed!


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    Buglim
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    Hi Everyone

    Just a quick mail to say to manonthestreet that you have spread some pretty slanderous remarks about a number of media owners on this site, mainly by misrepresentation. if I was you personally, I'd start keeping my mouth closed.

    Before you ask, no I do not work for the Galway Voice but I do work for another media owner.

    If you want to step toe to toe on this issue I will come with all guns a blazing


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    snubbleste
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I read this paper for the first time this week - there was a big pile at the door into work. There wasn't much in it.
    It's gone free, instead of charging a couple of euro, which I think is a great idea and I'm surprised no-one has thought of sooner.


    Eh when it first came out, it charged a couple of euro and not many copies shifted and then it turned into a freesheet.


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    Robbo
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    Buglim wrote: »
    Hi Everyone

    Just a quick mail to say to manonthestreet that you have spread some pretty slanderous remarks about a number of media owners on this site, mainly by misrepresentation. if I was you personally, I'd start keeping my mouth closed.

    Before you ask, no I do not work for the Galway Voice but I do work for another media owner.

    If you want to srep toe to toe on this issue I will come with all guns a blazing
    FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

    Galway's media darlings settle their proxy internet wars, live cage fight from Eyre Square.

    Promotion by Don King...Padraig Conneely as the ring announcer...Knacker Dwarf -v- Warty Nora on the undercard...winner gets the exclusive rights to rip off Boards threads instead of doing some actual journalism.


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    Buglim
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Buglim


    Quick give me a ring name????? And I'm not a journalist.....


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    Climate Expert
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    Any paper that puts out a front page with glaring typo in the headline deserves to die.


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    James Forde
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    in before the lock..................hopefully not though, this could be good


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    manonthestreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭manonthestreet


    whats' slandorous buglim? Who has been named? whats' not true?

    :eek:


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    Predalien
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    You've been continually posting comments suggesting it's going out of business, which so far it hasn't, so you've been irresponsibly spreading rumours without conclusive proof, rumours which may be having a negative effect on the business and so it's quite possible what your doing is slanderous.


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    manonthestreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭manonthestreet


    tell me one thing i said that is un-true. there were lay offs fact. the staff in galway are worried - fact. their other papers were closed down - fact. I am interested in media - fact.


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    [Deleted User]
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Eh when it first came out, it charged a couple of euro and not many copies shifted and then it turned into a freesheet.

    I remember when it came out it was charged for, I didn't look at it again until a couple of days ago and at the top right hand corner it said now free.

    I assumed it was a recent change. :o


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