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would be published only three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday) beginning that fall. On June 12, 2012, Amoss and other managers informed more than 200 members of the newspaper staff that their last day at the company would be
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newsroom, nearly half of the staff of 175. With new hiring, he said, the news gathering staff ultimately would total 151. Amoss the next day defended the decision in a front-page letter to readers, saying, "we made it in order to preserve and grow the journalism we and our community value."
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invested, I mean that they chose the second path. All the evidence points to—and this is why I decided to stay, by the way—their wanting to stay in business long-term, and figure out in an intellectually rigorous way how to do so."
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was floundering until Jim Amoss took over. When I took over from
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Nola Media Group established an annual employee award in his honor, the Amoss Award, in 2017. It recognizes "timeless journalism that earned the trust of the community and the respect of colleagues."
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