A 21 year-old, University of Minnesota student went into an absolute tirade yesterday after being fired from KSTP, the local ABC affiliate here in Minneapolis. The complaint filed after the incident reported that after receiving the bad news from her boss, Jennifer Anato-Mensah screamed, “You don’t know where I’m from, I’ll mess you up.” Then, [...]
One of the recent changes we have made in examining LinkUp jobs classifieds data is to report the number of new and total jobs listed on the site by job category and compare them to the previous month. As the chart below indicates, the 3 categories that showed the largest gains in August were Education [...]
August employment figures are not scheduled to be released until Friday morning, but if LinkUp data provides any type of early indicator, the nation’s employment picture continued to worsen in August. The number of total job openings posted on corporate web sites dropped 3% from July, while the total number of new openings posted showed [...]
The visible decline of the dailies probably began 5 years ago with readers abandoning the daily newspapers for better, cheaper, more convenient alternatives. The slow decline in subscriptions turned into a pretty rapid decline and eventually forced advertisers to re-examine the deteriorating value proposition that newspapers offered. The decline in subscription revenue, combined with the [...]
With increasing frequency, seismic shock waves have been reverberating through the media world, grabbing headlines and shifting the way people think about the drastically altered landscape. These might, for example, include daily newspapers announcing massive layoffs as they inch closer to bankruptcy, the introduction of technology that allows people to rent, download and watch feature-length [...]
With the announcement that JobDig is launching its next market in Indianapolis on August 4th, I came across Indianacareerconnect, a job board operated by the state of Indiana. I have been tracking Minnesota’s job board, Minnesotaworks.net, for years and I have been continually baffled as to why states feel the need to offer this service [...]
At least according to data provided by LinkUp.com, the nation’s job market might not be as bad as many people perceive it to be or as bad as other data sources might indicate. LinkUp released its monthly jobs report for June, and the number of new job openings rose by 16% in June while the [...]
The New York Times summarized the dismal year that the daily newspapers are having, claiming it’s the worst ever in terms of percentage decline in ad revenue. In 2007, newspaper ad sales dropped 8%, and this year it’s falling another 12%. May saw declines of 14-15%, and The San Francisco Chronicle is losing $1 million [...]
Always one step ahead of everyone else, Cheezhead has declared that he has moved beyond ripping Monster, declaring in an early June podcast that he no longer finds it sporting, fun, or even interesting. I still, however, cannot resist. Monster has lost its leadership position in online classifieds to CareerBuilder in large part because the [...]
As I have written about previously, Landmark Communications has put its media assets up for sale. In addition to The Weather Channel, the crown jewel of the group, the private equity firm owns a bunch of small and medium-sized dailies and community newspapers, shoppers and weeklies, and the Employment Guide. Lehman Brothers, who is handling [...]