The latest victims of cutbacks at the New York Times Company are employees of the company's subsidiary newspaper in Sarasota, FL, the Herald-Tribune. The paper notes the cutbacks coming:The Herald-Tribune is revamping its features sections and consolidating its Venice, North Port, Englewood and Port Charlotte operations, a move that will result in an unspecified number of layoffs.The media company will drop the daily Florida West section, adding more focused tabloid-size sections resembling Ticket. [snip] With the consolidation, the Herald-Tribune will start new interactive Web sites geared toward allowing the public to share their news, photos and videos.That last point allows readers to generate content, which is much cheaper than hiring journalists, even low paid ones. Of course, it does make the newspaper more like a blog, except with all the overhead of a corporate subsidiary.  Translated into corporate/ bureaucratic language, the blog-like policies comes across this...(Read Full Post)