Today is the day we will learn just how lean the Houston Chronicle newsroom can get. The paper is announcing more layoffs just a month after laying off 10% of their workforce. Will Houston's only paper end up an online-only edition like the Seattle Post Intelligencer? I simply don't see how that will work in the Houston market. We have too many commuters who rely on a paper easily transportable in a briefcase and far too few folks Internet-savvy enough to relate to a digital version of their morning ritual. I count myself as one of them. What would I do without the morning routine of eating Kashi GoLean cereal with my morning coffee and paper? My God, the world would surely stop.
Yesterday's edition worried me with its small size as I picked it up off my driveway and the paper's development of combining the Business and City/State sections several times a week scares me too.
Just yesterday I was having lunch with KHOU TV reporter Leigh Frillici who is on maternity leave discussing the plight of Houston media. We compared notes and it appears every single person we know in the biz has said the same thing about arriving at work in the morning, "If my keycard still lets me in the building I know its going to be a good day." In other words, no one is safe right now.
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