Per Deadspin, their official statement reads:

“We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs. While difficult, we are confident that it will make us more competitive, innovative and productive.” continued…

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Created by Docracy which apparently has all sorts of free (yes, let’s repeat it and say in unison: “FREE!”) documents, this video pretty much sums up being an assertive freelancer.

Seems innocent enough, right? Sitting in a park, a young lady poses as a boss and promises to dole out five bucks in exchange for a simple drawing…until that is, she doesn’t.

In other words, hashtag it: #getpaidnotplayed.

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Owner Advance Publications/Newhouse Newspapers may be following the Ann Arbor model, in which it transformed the Ann Arbor News from a print to a primarily web-focused publication, cutting staff in the process.

Editor Jim Amoss is said to be leaving after assisting with the transition. Also departing will be managing editors Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea.

Gambit, a local NOLA weekly, has more from shocked employees: “All employees with whom Gambit spoke — even longtime senior writers and editors — said they learned of their fates from The New York Times report….’I had to find this out by Twitter,’ said [a reporter]. ‘Do I go in to the office tomorrow? Do I even have a job to go in to tomorrow? I don’t know. No one has called me. No one has said anything.’”

Also according to Gambit, the layoffs are likely to target at least 50 reporters, bringing the newsroom staff down by one third. The remainder will likely take salary cuts and become bloggers.

If the Times-Picayune owners are truly emulating the Ann Arbor model, the cuts are likely to be deeper than just those 50. When the Ann Arbor News closed, about 10 percent of the 274 employees got jobs at the new AnnArbor.com.

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He resigned from Slashdot in August and announced the new move this morning, saying that after three months of relaxing, “my wife [was] telling me that it was time to get out of her house.”

At the Post, he’ll be working with editorial folks on existing projects (like Trove and Social Reader) and creating new ones.

“Don Graham is trying to accomplish something that is a bit of a cliche these days: A startup inside an established corporation. A group that can exist at a nexus between newspapers, websites, cable networks, and TV stations and think about the big picture and the future without the normal burdens associated with a business operating at a large scale,” Malda wrote. “I’m hoping to learn as much as I can from the journalists at the Post, and work to in turn provide them with tools to help them better connect with their audience, and at the same time help that audience to better connect with each other. I see a future that blends the created, the curated and the algorithm in new ways that benefits both active and passive information consumers. It’s a mouthful, but it’s important work, and it’s being done at the WaPo Labs.”

(h/t Jim Romenesko)

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The program includes:

Stephanie Agresta EVP, Managing Director of Social Media, Weber Shandwick

Megan Berry Founder, LiftFive

Leslie Bradshaw  President, COO, and Co-founder, JESS3

Danielle Brigida  Manager of Social Media, National Wildlife Federation

Michael Brito  SVP, Social Business Planning, Edelman Digital

Anthony DeRosa  Social Media Editor, Reuters

Tim Devane  Director of Sales and Business Development, bitly

Lauren Dugan  Co-editor, AllTwitter

Devon Glenn  Staff Writer, SocialTimes

Brendan Irvine-Broque  Content and Marketing Manager, Facebook Marketing Bible, Inside Network

Dave Kerpen  CEO, Likeable Media

Morin Oluwole  Strategic Partner Development, Facebook

Gretchen VanEsselstyn  Managing Producer, Education, Mediabistro

Leo Widrich Co-founder, Buffer

Baratunde Thurston  Director of Digital, The Onion

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With help from media moguls, we list the seven traits that makes the difference between a wanna-be with an idea bulb and a successful entrepreneur.

One of the first steps: finding that perfect partner. Cezary Pietrzak was one of four friends who worked together to launch start-up travel site Wanderfly, and he credits their friendship with getting the company off the ground. “You expect to spend a lot of time with other folks in your company and pull late hours, so you have to have a great relationship.”

Read on for more on learning the business, handling those funds and honing on your big idea at 7 Definitive Traits You Need for Startup Success. [sub req'd]

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• Former Cosmo editor gives $30 million to establish media innovation center at Stanford, Columbia (via Poynter MediaWire)

• Staff Promotions at Parenting (via FishbowlNY)

• Saveur Adds Associate Publisher (via FishbowlNY)

• Austin Biz Journal names new publisher (via Talking Biz News)

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If you’ve ever spent time as an editor, you likely have plenty of ways for freelance writers to get on your bad side. But before you start adding to the comments, let’s be fair. There are plenty of things magazine and newspaper staffers do to damage the writer-editor relationship, as well.

Case in point? Not responding to emails.

“We know that editors are incredibly busy, but take the time to let freelancers know that you got their stuff,” suggests Apryl Motley, a Maryland-based communications consultant. “When we don’t hear from you, we figure it’s a done deal, and we’re on to the next assignment. Then, you email us all out of the blue with queries and requests for additional copy.”

Not a good look. Get more tips on how to correctly manage the relationship in mediabistro.com’s 4 Things Editors Do To Drive Freelancers Nuts.

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It’s time to get serious about turning ourselves around — and we can help.

All this week, we’ve got great step-by-step AvantGuild features to help media professionals shed their old habits and begin anew in 2012. continued…

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• Playboy Is Moving Its Editorial Headquarters From Chicago to Los Angeles (via MinOnline)

• TheGrio.com Now Comes With Bacon (via FishbowlDC)

• Qwiki Loses Its Director Of Communications To First Round Capital (via SAI)

• Tim Armstrong Just Opened A Meeting By Giving 150 AOL Execs $10,000 Bonuses (AOL) (via SAI)

• Calderone Gets Scoop on Amanpour’s Departure (via FishbowlDC)

• “Nip and tuck” layoffs at Reuters due to restructuring (via Talking Biz News)

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Other habits of successful CEOs, according to the survey: brown-bagging lunch or skipping it entirely, participating in company happy hours, and wearing navy blue (for men) or black (for women).

Obviously, what will get you a promotion in your company depends on your company culture, not just on what a survey says you should do. It probably won’t hurt to wear the suit.

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Even though the $532 million was about 6 percent less than what the company brought in a year ago, ad revenues rose 8 percent and now make up the clear bulk of the company’s business. The once-strong Internet subscription business fell 22 percent to $192 million.

The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL said, surpassed 35 million monthly visitors in the third quarter, while Patch hit 10 million monthlies and now has 10,000 bloggers contributing to the network.

Allthingsd’s Peter Kafka points out, though, that AOL’s core properties haven’t been able to attract much growth in traffic: “A year ago, AOL attracted 106 million monthly unique visitors to its sites; this year, the total only moved up to 107 million.”

AOL’s been able to hang in there so far. The question is whether it will be able to continue to do so without more major layoffs.

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You can upload your resume or create a new one on the site. We’re not sure the world needs yet another place for you to upload a resume, but this is Indeed we’re talking about. (Besides, if you don’t sign up soon, someone else could take your custom URL.) You can also sign up via Facebook, and unlike certain other apps we could mention, it doesn’t auto-post anything to your Facebook profile.

Employers can use the product for free during its beta period; afterward, search will still be free, but contacting candidates will cost.

After the jump, the press release announcing the expansion:
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• Wonkblog Launches at WashPo (via MinOnline)

• Scott Rosenberg named Grist executive editor (via Romenesko+)

• Mutineer Magazine Begins Its Fourth Nomadic Year (via FishbowlLA)

• ‘I asked tough questions when I was at CNN and nobody freaked out. I start asking tough questions at Fox and everybody freaked out.’ (via TVNewser)

• TechCrunch’s New Editor Is Already A Millionaire (via SAI)

• Forbes names new chief marketing officer (via Talking Biz News)

• Karin Tracy Named Entertainment Weekly Publisher (via MinOnline :: Breaking News & Views)

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A Klamath Falls Herald and News (not owned by Western) article said that Western Communications planned to continue operating normally as it seeks better payment terms on an $18 million loan with Bank of America.

Chairwoman Betsy McCool said that to meet the bank’s demands, the company would have to “wreck all our newspapers” and lay off “mass quantities of people, and we’re not going to do that.”

A bank spokeswoman said that Bank of America has “tried to work with The Bulletin and help resolve their financial issues, including giving them some more time,” but wouldn’t comment further.

In addition to the Bend Bulletin, Western Communications publishes seven newspapers across Oregon and California.

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