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For those of you in a different country that doesn't use the Dollar: The New York Times just blew almost an entire Color on their paywall.

• andjones 16y ago
  indeed... see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2363697 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2363697 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367132 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367132
• notahacker 16y ago
  They also could have paid these staff for at least another four years. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/10/19/new-york-times-job-cuts-read-the-memo/ http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/10/19/new-york-times.... Past experience at an old media company (who would have loved to have had a spare £40 million to spend delaying project launches) suggests the redundancies were people too busy doing productive work to produce job-saving Powerpoint presentations on how they were enhancing stakeholder value by synergising workflow processes.
  • coolgeek 16y ago
    To be fair, it was only £25 million
• wging 16y ago
  I'm sorry, what's a Color?
  • jacques_chester 16y ago
    A wavelength of light, as spelled by Mr Noah Webster during the Great Vowel Shortage of 1783.
    • leoc 16y ago
      Worst. Spelling reform. Ever.
      • kaleberg 16y ago
        At least he didn't change "bridegroom" to "bridegoom" so it was spelled the way it was pronounced. Apparently the pronunciation has changed back again.