Journal Communications, which owns the publisher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, expects these and other reductions to generate a yearly savings of $21 million.
“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. Save up to 99 on a digital subscription to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With last week’s voluntary buyouts included, the total number of jobs shed by the Journal Sentinel now stands at ninety-two. Up to 90 off newsstand price of top magazines. 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. “It is as it should be,” wrote Sharma-Jensen in her farewell column. 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. “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. Since the merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel in the mid-1990s, the paper’s circulation dropped steadily, with the Sunday paper dropping from 466,000 subscribers to just over. Through August 2008, the Indy Star was one of the only top 100 papers not to have laid off employees in the recent downturn. A Journal Sentinel analysis found that since 2017, Wisconsin had a net loss of 285 million in real estate value to out-of-state.
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. Much of that lost local ownership means money goes out of state. 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.
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