More bad news for movie critics
I heard Tribune was dropping movie critics at all of its papers apart from those in Los Angeles and Chicago, but I didn’t think it was going to happen this fast. (Link via Broward New Times)
I’ll just add this advice for movie critics, which Lucas Grindley offered back in November:
“Don’t wait around for this same fate. Convince your editor to use wire copy so you can cover something else. Because when it comes time for the editor to look around the room for cost savings, your beat needs to be local and indispensable.”
The prescient Mr. Grindley also offered warnings to sports, business and features writers, and these wise words in general:
“Don’t let positions get cut because you didn’t have enough foresight to realize they were being wasted. Maybe circulation declines wouldn’t be so steep today if we’d ensured every beat in the room was local, and couldn’t be replaced by wire copy.”