“We are expecting the possibility, incidentally, of additional layoffs as part of this downsizing.” “I am not in a position to tell you how things are going to unfold here,” says Mary Louise Schumacher, one of only two remaining critics in the paper’s arts and entertainment department. But employees are still bracing for additional cuts. With last week’s voluntary buyouts included, the total number of jobs shed by the Journal Sentinel now stands at ninety-two. The job has meant more to me than they know.” In this current maelstrom, then, I’m grateful for the guidance and opportunities my editors gave me, the best of them ten years ago when they let me become book editor and critic. Ad revenue was off 14.8 percent in 2008, to 138 million. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Subscription Offers, Specials, and. “It is as it should be,” wrote Sharma-Jensen in her farewell column. The Journal Sentinel’s advertising revenue decreased by 35.7 percent in the first quarter, to 22.5 million, compared with a year earlier. newspaper, plans to raise its newsstand price by 25 cents to 1 to counter rising newsprint costs. This gives me the time I was craving to work on some personal writing projects while still allowing me the opportunity and freedom to continue writing a bit about the book world. Lillian Price Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MADISON - A Democratic veteran and iron worker announced Monday he will challenge Republican Paul Ryan for Wisconsins 1st Congressional District in 2018. “I will continue to write about books and other matters for the Journal Sentinel on a freelance basis and may write for other publications as well. “I’m not totally gone from the paper,” Sharma-Jensen told the National Book Critics Circle, where she is a board member. Similar deals-part of a cost-cutting plan to address flagging ad revenue-have been accepted by thirty-six other employees at the paper, including four arts and entertainment writers. Critic Geeta Sharma-Jensen penned her final column as books editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Saturday after announcing last week that she has accepted a voluntary buyout offer from the newspaper’s publisher. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in 2010 on an internal investigation of Dittmann by the Department of Corrections that found evidence he used slurs against gays, hurled fruit at.
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