From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:
Company leaders were meeting face to face with Patriot-News and PennLive employees about whether they will be offered positions with one of the new companies that will be launching at the first of the year, the Pennsylvania Media Group and Advance Central Services Pennsylvania. The goal was to talk to every employee by the end of Monday…
More than 70 percent of employees were expected to be offered jobs within the new organization. In addition, the new companies are planning on hiring for 51 positions.
In the new company, The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week — Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday — beginning Jan. 1. At the same time, the organization will intensify its PennLive and other digital news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week…
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EDITOR: We suspect the retention rate will be down to 50% within a few years if publishing the newspaper three days a week works out, and to only 15% if only the web site is retained.
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EDITOR: Thanks. Now corrected.