This recent development in newspaperland is almost too strange to believe: the New York Times' cut its employment blogger. Now, the writer - Marci Alboher - wasn't a full-time employee. Meaning the Times didn't have to pay benefits and all those other items that make full-time employees expensive for public companies. And she's also a blogger, not a print reporter, so her work is helping the NYT expand its reach and attract new readers.
So why did they cut her column? She writes she wasn't given an answer, other than the generic statement about the economic difficulties hitting the paper. But two things to think about: 1) Full-time employees are protected by a union and 2) Print still pays the bills, even if the ad revenue is shrinking.
Still, it boggles the mind.
