The Times has consistently increased newsroom staff following previous rounds -- the headcount was 1,332 when the current round was announced, two people more than in early 2008 -- and it will keep hiring after this one as well.
Still, in the last decade, Mr. Singleton has increased the newsroom staff and space devoted to news at his flagship newspaper, The Denver Post.
We have seen tabloid newspapers sacrifice standards to increase sales; newsrooms are cutting staff in these difficult economic times, and journalists are being required to produce more copy in less time.
Mr. Hiller said that Mr. O'Shea asked for a $3 million increase in the newsroom budget.
Lelyveld wanted to publish longer pieces, one of his major efforts being a year-long reporting project that involved more than fifty people and produced a fifteen-part series, "How Race Is Lived in America," in 2000, which won a Pulitzer... Raines also wanted long pieces, but above all he wanted them to trigger news... Describes how newsroom resentment increased.
Lelyveld wanted to publish longer pieces, one of his major efforts being a year-long reporting project that involved more than fifty people and produced a fifteen-part series, "How Race Is Lived in America," in 2000, which won a Pulitzer... Raines also wanted long pieces, but above all he wanted them to trigger news... Describes how newsroom resentment increased..
The phenomenon is largely a product of the increasing pressure in newsrooms that have had their resources slashed, then been recalibrated to care more about traffic figures.
Google's dominant position as an advertising seller has also given it increasing power over newsrooms (although not as much as Facebook).
Mr. Steinberg said that for his organization those goals included providing fair and accurate coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the media, increasing diversity in newsrooms, opposing newsroom bias and providing occupational training to its members, he said.
But a company spokeswoman pointed out that merit-pay increases had raised the average newsroom wage 28percentt above contractual minimums.
