NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Gannett Inc. (GCI) employees looking for the latest breaking news, layoffs and analysis about their company are increasingly turning to a blog run by a former company employee.
Jim Hopkins, 51, former Gannett reporter and editor for more than 20 years, operates Gannett Blog, a one-man show that tracks all-things Gannett, ranging from layoffs, furloughs and newspaper home delivery cutbacks. With the economy stuck in a recession, unemployment rising and the newspaper industry declining, Hopkins has become a voice and outlet for current and former Gannett employees to express their emotions about corporate news and the industryโs troubled state.
โI suspected my former employees would want a place where they could get information that was more complete and unvarnished than what theyโd probably get from the company,โ Hopkins told Dow Jones Newswires. โI wanted them to have a place where they could share information with each other as they planned their futures.โ






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