You mean Tracy Finkelstein and Tammy Palmer

Tammy?? She has been there forEVER. How is that possible?

Rogers has no concept of loyalty. That is how. Everyone has to be missing Ted by now.

Long-term employee also equals larger salary, that's how.
Why does it take posters here to tell us who the people affected are? Shouldn't Masthead be including names in the story? I understand if you don't want to embarrass people, but isn't that an essential part of the story...?

This is more embarassing for the company, not the employee. You can't control what will happen. We just do when we're told to do it or face fear of losing your job.

Hi, writing a Review piece. If any of you commenters wouldn't mind talking to me I am working on a piece about this topic. Please email me if so: wcwager@gmail.com

A Review piece for where, exactly? And what is the topic, exactly?

Sorry, Ryerson Review of Journalism, and the topic is basically the worsening job security in magazines and other conditions as well, pay, benefits, advancement, etc.

wtf: i'm guessing she means a story for the ryerson review of journalism.

Really makes us younger professionals question our recent career path. What do we have to look forward to?

Those who say the more experienced staff are the most vulnerable are correct. The days of working until retirement are gone...at least at the same company. They no longer want to foot the high salaries, health care, etc. for older workers. Get em cheap and get em cheerful..that is the new rule. Same in the newspaper world..starting with Sun cutbacks in 2001 -- almost everyone over 50 was axed. Now the Star is dumping 166 people on the market later this year...most senior editors.

Radar is dead on - morale in the publishing division is abysmal and staff have no respect for management who are the constant butt of grim jokes. Unlikely anyone will talk on the record, Whitney. Most who have left have packages and prefer not to lose them.

When will Nadir start paying attention? He is bleeding talent. The best and brightest journalists have been laid-off. Rogers now has self-serving leadership in place and yes-men and yes-women working for it. Those left know we have to agree with the new "strategy" or we'll be on the chopping block. Ted is rolling over in his grave at the mess rogers media has become. it's a disgrace.

So folks enough grousing - time to take action and look into getting involved with the union.Rogers folks just need to talk to the editorial staff writers (not managers or supervisors)on Macleans.
Harold Cayley on Richmond St. in Toronto is an excellent labour lawyer if you need expert advice.

To address Concerned's point about questioning their career path: you absolutely should. Be realistic. This problem is not limited to just Rogers, it is industry-wide, and it's not just a magazine problem, it's the media in general And it's not going to be fixed overnight, nor will a union help. So, Whitney, the story is not about job security and benefits, etc., it's about the very survival of the industry. Massive story to undertake.

If Whitney includes quotes from long-term Rogers employees who have been let go, that issue of the Review will have to be printed on flame-retardant paper. There is cold comfort in knowing that long-serving staff who are paid accordingly are the ones likely to be axed, and many of those who have been treated in this way bitterly regret the percentage of their lives they spent giving tireless, loyal service to this abomination of an organization.

How did consumer cuts become about a trade SVP?
Cuts on Flare would be based on Flares results.

Um, you don't think there's a larger industry issue at play here?

Interesting item from the Globe today
http://www.globecampus.ca/blogs/colemans-campus/

Dream on, folks. Magazine publishing has always been a game for the young. Very few people over 50 ever hung on in editorial. It's partly the nature of the job (cf, Chatelaine rebooting evry 10 years to target 30 year-olds again), partly the pay (lousy), and partly the culture of the industry. If you want to retire with a pension, go into circulation.