Gannett Media Corp. is considering subleasing a portion of the Democrat and Chronicle building to the new Police Accountability Board.
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Four more paperboys sue the Democrat and Chronicle claiming sexual abuse
The latest lawsuit brings the number of one-time paperboys to sue the Democrat and Chronicle for alleged sexual abuse to five.
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A life’s work, but still not enough
Mention James Lawrence, the former longtime editor of the Democrat and Chronicle’s opinion page, and you’ll likely get a wide range of reactions. Lawrence, who retired from the D&C six months ago, became something of an iconic media figure in Rochester. Almost every high-level city, county, school district, and community leader in the area met […]
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Democrat and Chronicle newsroom changes begin, with some losses
The Democrat and Chronicle’s new newsroom is taking shape, but there have been casualties. Executive Editor Karen Magnuson laid out some of the changes in a column on Sunday. She listed some new members of the “leadership team,” and said that most of the company’s journalists have been given new roles, which will start this month.But […]
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Feedback 10/23
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The new, ‘more,’ D&C
We’ve had just over a week of the new print version of the Democrat and Chronicle, with, as promised, more content than the old D&C. And I’m not loving it. Change is good. Communities change, readers’ interests change, style and taste change. If we had to read the newspapers that were published 100 years ago, […]
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DEVELOPING: D&C layoffs hitting newsroom
[UPDATE 4:55 P.M.] An article posted on the Democrat and Chronicle’s website says that the company laid of six full-time workers and one part-time worker today. The article doesn’t specify where those cuts occurred. Original post: Layoffs are hitting the Democrat and Chronicle newsroom this morning, according to unconfirmed reports. The extent of the layoffs […]
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Historic Gannett building for sale
Standing next to the Gannett building at 55 Exchange Boulevard, it’s immediately clear that the building is a monument to another time. Built in the late 1920’s by Gannett founder Frank Gannett, the building’s neo-Classical style exudes the authority and power of newspapers during their golden age. The building, which Frank Gannett constructed to house […]
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The D&C by the numbers
The Democrat and Chronicle is moving fewer copies of its print paper, but more people are accessing its content digitally. That’s what the numbers from the latest Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations) show. On a general, national basis, newspaper circulation is down, but digital products account for an increasingly greater […]
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Gannett selling D and C building
Want to buy an old newspaper building? The Democrat and Chronicle reports that its 55 Exchange Boulevard building is being put up for sale by its parent company, Gannett. D and C employees should be in a new space in the City of Rochester by mid-2014, says the article. The D and C has downsized […]
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Reader Feedback 9.28.05
TALKING BACK TO LANDSBURG Steven Landsburg is wrong (“On the Money,” September 7). Everybody does not benefit. The US manufacturing sector: machinists, production managers, janitors, engineers, technicians, and production workers all lost when corporations moved jobs to low-wage countries. It sure looks like the major stockholders reaped virtually all the benefits. The results of corporate […]
