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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Gannett’s future – and us
One of the big national news stories last week had a deep local angle, and big implications for Rochester: The Democrat and Chronicle’s parent, the Gannett Company – founded here, and in the long-ago past, headquartered here – plans to split into two parts. One will contain its newspapers and their websites, the other its […]
GateHouse reportedly lays off Monroe County reporters
In tweets, Messenger Post reporter James Battaglia says that GateHouse Media has laid off its Monroe County reporters.
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 […]






