Print media downturn: the Wall Street Journal employees are encouraged to take the initiative outright separation-IT information

In the Wall Street Journal is Murdoch's news Empire "Crown assets", but according to the United States reported CNBC financial news website, has started to buy the Wall Street Journal staff carried out contract "voluntary redundancy".

United Kingdom, Reuters also reported the news. Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal quoted (Gerard Baker), according to a memorandum, the Wall Street Journal was preparing to make a significant portion of the employee buyout of the labor contract.

Baker said that in order to limit the size of involuntary layoffs, will be facing the Wall Street Journal employees worldwide--including management and workers – offers to buy out contracts of employment opportunities, they will receive voluntary severance.

Baker said that if the employee is willing to participate in the buyout, you should be issued a message to human resources department before October 31, declaring "I'd like to join the Wall Street Journal, the Department actively terminates the labor contract scheme".

Of course, even a list of editors and reporters a buyout plan, the Wall Street Journal may be rejected.

The Wall Street Journal is the United States the most authoritative financial newspaper, United States one of the three major newspapers. Affiliated with the Wall Street Journal United States Dow Jones earlier, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp spent $ 5 billion bid for Dow Jones, Murdoch has got to get this valuable asset, the Wall Street Journal. However, poor print market as a whole, were difficult to avoid layoffs for the winter by the Wall Street Journal.

For the Wall Street Journal buyout news, Dow Jones does not comment.

According to the United States media reported Politico, in an unexpected wrong e-mail, also affiliated with Dow Jones media Barron news of layoffs have been developed and will be implemented next week.

Barron's editor Ed Finn said in the message, the Wall Street Journal, has told employees, will provide more than 1.5 times the normal compensation for employees to buy out contracts, "but if we were to Barron's employees will be fired next week, provided normal termination compensation, this will cause problems, please give me some advice. ”

The Executive said his e-mail message ready to be sent to Barron's management, the accident sent more people.

In the previous quarter results Analyst meeting, News Corp's Chief Financial Officer Bedi Ajay Singh, analysts said, in the second quarter, the Wall Street Journal in the United States domestic advertising revenue decreased by 12%, but the drop in print advertising has been growth in online advertising to make up for, in addition to the Wall Street Journal newspaper circulation revenue growth for the quarter to 5%.

Well known is that print has become a sunset industry, over the past few years, newspaper print advertising revenue fell in succession, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other well-known newspapers have turned to online and mobile APP to increase subscription revenue and advertising revenue, but this did not offset the loss of print advertising.

Major media in recent years has been downsizing and streamlining of cost moves. Last year, the Wall Street Journal is located in Helsinki and Prague abolished the two reporters, laid off a number of employees. The New York Times has also conducted several rounds of layoffs

纸媒不景气：《华尔街日报》鼓励员工主动买断离职 - IT资讯

《华尔街日报》是默多克新闻帝国中的“皇冠资产”，不过据美国财经新闻网站CNBC报道，《华尔街日报》已经开始采用买断员工合同的方式进行“自愿裁员”。

英国路透社也报道了这一消息。报道援引《华尔街日报》总编辑贝克（Gerard Baker）的一份备忘录称，《华尔街日报》正准备让相当一部分的员工买断劳动合同。

贝克表示，为了限制非自愿裁员的规模，《华尔街日报》将会面向全世界的员工——包括管理层和普通员工——提供买断雇佣合同的机会，他们将会获得自愿离职补偿。

贝克表示，如果员工愿意参加买断，则应该在10月31日之前向人力资源部发出邮件，同时声明“我愿意加入《华尔街日报》新闻部主动解除劳动合同的补偿计划”。

当然，即使是某位编辑和记者报名买断合同计划，《华尔街日报》仍然有可能拒绝。

《华尔街日报》是美国最具权威性的财经大报，也是美国三大报纸之一。《华尔街日报》隶属于美国道琼斯公司，早前，默多克的新闻集团斥资50亿美元收购了道琼斯公司，默多克如愿以偿拿到了《华尔街日报》这份宝贵的资产。不过，纸媒整体市场不佳，也让《华尔街日报》难以避免裁员过冬。

对于《华尔街日报》的买断新闻，道琼斯公司并未置评。

另据美国媒体Politico报道，在一份意外发错的电子邮件中，同样隶属于道琼斯公司的媒体《巴伦周刊》也被爆出已经制定了裁员计划，下周将会实施。

《巴伦周刊》的总编辑Ed Finn在这份邮件中表示，《华尔街日报》已经通知了员工，将会提供比正常高出1.5倍的员工买断合同补偿，“但是如果我们给巴伦周刊下周将要解雇的员工，提供正常的离职补偿，这将会引发问题，请给我一点意见。”

这名高管称，他的这份电子邮件准备发送给巴伦周刊的管理层，但是意外发送给了更多人。

在上一季度的财报分析师会议上，新闻集团的首席财务官Bedi Ajay Singh对分析师表示，在二季度中，《华尔街日报》在美国国内的广告收入同比下跌了12%，不过印刷广告的下跌，得到了网络广告增长的弥补，另外《华尔街日报》该季度的报纸发行收入小幅增长了5%。

众所周知的是，纸媒已经成为夕阳产业，在过去多年中，报纸的印刷广告收入接连下跌，包括《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》等知名大报纷纷开始通过网络版和移动APP增加订阅收入和广告收入，但是这仍然无法抵消印刷广告的损失。

各大知名媒体近年来一直在进行人员裁减和精简成本的举动。去年，《华尔街日报》裁撤了位于赫尔辛基和布拉格的两个记者站，裁掉了一批员工。《纽约时报》也已经进行了多轮裁员