CNN has an interesting story of Katherine McIntosh, one of the young girls in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” image taken in 1936. McIntosh is on the left, next to her mother Florence Owens Thompson.
-Damon Keisow
Gannett is in day two of what could be a 2,000+ mass layoff at all of its papers across the country. There is only one report of a lost job in Burlington so far - but that number is expected to increase.
Jim Hopkins at Gannett Blog is tracking the losses here and here and here
-Damon [...]
We are officially in a recession. Thank you number crunchers. The National Bureau of Economic Research stated we are experiencing what is “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months.” According to their calculators, the economy peaked in December 2007. The 13,748 laid off newspaper workers are [...]
