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With around 10 layoffs at the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, one of the town's leading trades took another hit, leaving the entertainment industry’s traditional news organizations in reduced circumstances yet again.
The layoffs were the fourth wave of job eliminations in the past year at THR, and cut deep into the organization. Rose Einstein, the associate publisher and a respected Hollywood publishing executive, was among those to leave.
Also cut were art director Deeann Hoff, editors Dan Carlson and Chad Williams, graphic designer Angie Carmen and web staffers Ron Phillips and Tracy Baer.
In addition to the editorial division bearing the brunt of the layoffs, one of the company's other trade publications, Radio & Records, closed altogether, leaving about 30 staffers out of work.
The media landscape in Hollywood is swiftly undergoing dramatic change, after nearly a century of stability and profitability. (TheWrap being among the newcomers in the digital space.) Variety has had two rounds of layoffs this year alone, while TVWeek shuttered print operations and went solely online June 1.
As advertising revenues -- and ad pages -- suffer a nearly-unprecedented decline this year, The Hollywood Reporter has been seeking to change its business model away from print.
"Nielsen is looking extremely hard at all of their publications, and they are determining that digital is the way to go," said one high-level source at The Hollywood Reporter. "They are re-evaluating what staff is really needed to do what's done on a daily basis."
The source also said that the Hollywood Reporter has been having routine discussions about the paper's publishing frequency. In recent years, the amount of "days off" has increased to what is now set at around 20, with last year's print-less Christmas-to-New Year's week signaling a concrete shift toward Web operations during slow times.
In December, a major round of layoffs hit THR, including TV critic Barry Garron and international editor Hy Hollinger. In that round, the film reporting staff was especially hit hard, as was the graphics department and the copy desk.
In June of last year, the paper let 10 staffers go, and in April '08, 12 staffers were let go at across all Nielsen publications, including Mediaweek and Adweek.
At the time, the cuts came as Nielsen was considering selling its business titles.
As for R&R, all jobs are eliminated immediately, and its website has been taken offline for good.
Radio & Records was founded in 1973 and was acquired by VNU in 2006.
All of Nielsen's music coverage will now be consolidated into Billboard, a company spokesman said. Nielsen announced to its R&R staff that the current issue is the last.
In a Town Hall setting for R&R staff, publisher Howard Appelbaum told employees that the magazine didn't work in the current economic climate.
Editor's note: Eric Mika has contacted TheWrap to say that the comment below signed by "Eric Mika" was not written by him.
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Emerson Says
As advertising revenues -- and ad pages -- suffer a nearly-unprecedented decline this year, The Hollywood Reporter has been seeking to change its business model away from print.games
Bronson Page Says
What kind of schmuck kicks someone in the ass on their way out the door? A gutless, anonymous one.
Rose Einstein has been a positive force in the home entertainment industry, not to mention a mentor to so many who – thanks to her – have found careers within it. In the dog-eat-dog downward-trending economy, it may feel chic to eat one's own, but take a minute. If you're next with the pink slip, will you welcome a scathing, public post mortem? Is there nothing better for you to do?
Polarized opinions seem to be the hallmark of great leadership, especially when it's a strong, smart woman like Rose Einstein.
Bronson Page
Joanna Jenkins Says
Yes the trades are in deep trouble, for a number of different reasons, but one thing is for sure-- In the trades, the "letters to the editor" aren't wrapped around anonymous screen names by people too pitiful, too hateful and too small minded to have their true identities known. In the trades, names are verified and published so this anonymous, self-serving, mudslinging is spared from the rest of us looking for actual entertainment related news. If The Wrap wants to become the 21st century version of "the trades", I strongly suggest you screen the garbage out before you actually publish comments from fools and losers like those above.
D-ANON Says
... and another thing. Eric Mika is merely the 3rd or 4th publisher in as many years (I lose count, sorry). The rot had set in long before he arrived. One could point to the last person to hold the post for an extended period of time and argue that he did not do enough in the fat years to prepare for the lean years. Kinda like American society in general.
GET OVER IT Says
For those of you who are dumb enough to think that Eric Mika reads, let alone would actually comment on "The Wrap" then thats the reason you were laid off. Only people to comment on this are bitter about being fired and aren't skilled enough to get another job so you're judging those who are able to keep theirs.
There's a reason Eric still has a job and you don't. Get over yourselves, get off of "the wrap" and try monster/career builder because we KNOW you're not employed.
Christian Calson Says
Classy. I worked for Rose and I can tell you she demands a lot and you're better for it at the end of the day. The pub world isn't filled with good guys and villains, maybe online to get readers, but a lot of hard work and keeping your business growing. I'm sure THR is doing their best to deal with their business and I'm saddened when a friend goes through this. Remember what they told us in 2nd grade: be kind to each other (it could be you next time).
Christian Calson
Guillotine Editorial
Ex THRer Says
Hard to believe even Erik Mika is so dumb as to leave that comment or is someone posing as him? If it is this is a shocking new low for an executive that has no clue what he's doing and run such a once-great institution into the ground. Yes the economy is terrible and there are other forces at work but as a person lucky enough to escape that place relatively early in Mika's tenure there I am sure that at least three quarters of the paper's problems is a direct result of his leadership or lack thereof. How sad so many great people who've given their hearts and souls to that place for many years are shown the door while this guy somehow continues to draw a substantial paycheck.
d-anon Says
Did Eric really say those comments attributed to him? I would hope TheWrap verifies them one way or the other, and shares the results.
JP Says
Is there any editor left at THR now with real industry experience and expertise? They got rid of all the veterans and kept the camera hogs who are just out for themselves.
oy Says
Wow -- I've known Eric Mika to be something of a sleazeball, and even I'm impressed. Someone says something decent about a woman who just lost her job at his paper, and the very man who set the paper's demise into motion (THR was going quickly south even before the economy tanked) pops right up to insult him.
Stay classy, Eric.
Laughing Out Loud at EM Says
It takes a special kind of to get his name tarnished further than it already is. Frankly, I think TheWrap.com soft-pedaled this story by not mentioning Eric Mika by name as the architect of failure at The Hollywood Reporter. Then he has to go make some snide comment on this site and make this all about him. I hope your bosses at Nielsen are so behind the times that they DON'T read TheWrap.com Moronka! Otherwise, you'll be hoping that TheWrap.com hires you instead.
Deck Chair Shuffler Says
Erik Mika is a clueless, hostile, unseemly piece of dog excrement. But he's irrelevant in the grand scheme. The Hollywood Reporter is sinking into the muck for the same reason every other once-essential publication is: lack of advertising. At some point, Hollywood realized it no longer needed to cowtow to the trades' model of industry extortion. That, far more than mismanagement, is spelling its rapid demise.
This said, Mika's most grievous sin is in doing parent company Nielsen's bidding to squeeze every last dime from the depleted carcass of print. Were he and THR smart and not shortsighted and greed-driven as they are, they'd have long ago understood that a slow death via disappearing revenues and incessant layoffs only prolong the inevitable -- and ALL of their effort should be going into preserving and bolstering the Reporter brand for its inevitable full-on shift to cyberspace.
All the publication is doing now is compromising a name that once meant something but is rapidly growing synonymous with incompetence and failure. It's sad, but clear, that the patient is critical and nearing death. And those in charge lack even the decency to attempt mouth-to-mouth.
Innovator Says
Eric Mika= CON MAN that hates America and Hollywood. A man without a vision.
After many years and many millions dollars spent to create the brand "The Hollywood Reporter" it took barely one year for the fraud Eric Mica to have the "brilliant idea" to rename the trade paper "THR." What an idiot. Or does THR mean "The Hong Kong Reporter," so that Eric Mika can spend his time with his lovely asian girlfriend. Eric Mika and whomever hired him should be fired at once. It is time for this con man to leave town. Good riddance schmuck.
Regarding Rose Einstein, she had a good run, time to retire. Like with Madelyn Hammond it's time for new blood with new ideas. Enough of giving opportunities to burned out goods.
New century, new blood, new ideas!
A surprised reader Says
Wow Eric, I find it very interesting that the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter is reading The Wrap.
Eric Mika Says
So Kevin...you sound like one of nature's last noblemen
If you are such a fan of Rose Einstein...hire her
You bullshit artist
Eric Mika
Kevin Davis Says
Dear (cowardly) Anonymous,
I personally worked with and for Rose Einstein for over four years while I was at Variety/RBI, and I can tell you that Rose was one of the most intelligent, hard working and, yes, tough people I have ever encountered.
I can also tell you that I am not the only executive that credits Rose amongst their best of friends and mentors.
Any company would be lucky to have a person like Rose on their team and I would suspect that the people at the Hollywood Reporter who let her go were very reluctant to do so. Unfortunately it's a sad testimony about the state of affairs over there.
Kevin Davis
COO
TheWrap.com
Anonymous Says
I hate to hear of people getting laid off, but Rose Einstein is one of those people that has stepped on so many toes to get where she is and I really dont feel that bad for her at all. The people that 'used' to report to her are probably having a secret party right now. I know we were relieved when she was let go from Reed Publishing.
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