Shrink Globally, Slash Locally?

AT THE INQUIRER, SHRINK GLOBALLY, SLASH LOCALLY?
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Howard Kurtz]
Brian Tierney, a onetime critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer who wound up buying the paper, is determined to take his new property in a different direction. "We don't need a Jerusalem bureau," he says. "What we need are more people in the South Jersey bureau." But six months after this advertising and public relations executive gained control of a once-proud newspaper that routinely ranked among the country's top 10, he is considering layoffs of as much as 30 percent of an already reduced newsroom staff. That would mean even fewer journalists covering those New Jersey suburbs and just about everywhere else, deepening the sense of gloom at a paper that racked up 18 Pulitzer Prizes between 1975 and 1997.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112601018.html
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