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Nascar Scene publication closing ?
Popular site and magazine making major cuts
The economy is starting to effect one of NASCAR’s largest media outlets as a reported two-thirds of NASCAR Scene’s staff lost their jobs today. Among those cut were Jeff Gluck and Mike Hembree.
Gluck confirmed his newly unemployed status earlier today on his Twitter account saying, “Dear Friends…I am sorry to inform you I just lost my job! Not sure of the next step right now. Let me know if you hear of any openings!”
Also getting cut is Steve Waid, who also posted on Twitter about being apart of the layoff saying, “Hate to go out, but I had a helluva run at 30 years. I’ll be around.”
Once the cutbacks were announced, the staff who were let go also had to hand in their keys and computers before being escorted out of the building.
The firing came somewhat as a shock and has other media members, like MikeMulhern.net, speculating that the site/magazine is shutting down. Details were still unavailable at press time on the actual number fired.
NASCAR Scene is owned by the Street and Smith’s company. Writers often appear online at SceneDaily.com or in NASCAR Illustrated. Street and Smith’s also owns sports website and magazine, the Sporting News.
The economy is starting to effect one of NASCAR’s largest media outlets as a reported two-thirds of NASCAR Scene’s staff lost their jobs today. Among those cut were Jeff Gluck and Mike Hembree.
Gluck confirmed his newly unemployed status earlier today on his Twitter account saying, “Dear Friends…I am sorry to inform you I just lost my job! Not sure of the next step right now. Let me know if you hear of any openings!”
Also getting cut is Steve Waid, who also posted on Twitter about being apart of the layoff saying, “Hate to go out, but I had a helluva run at 30 years. I’ll be around.”
Once the cutbacks were announced, the staff who were let go also had to hand in their keys and computers before being escorted out of the building.
The firing came somewhat as a shock and has other media members, like MikeMulhern.net, speculating that the site/magazine is shutting down. Details were still unavailable at press time on the actual number fired.
NASCAR Scene is owned by the Street and Smith’s company. Writers often appear online at SceneDaily.com or in NASCAR Illustrated. Street and Smith’s also owns sports website and magazine, the Sporting News.
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Permalink Reply by zoomsss on
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There's a few of the writers that already were diverse and writing for other sites, so I don't think they'll feel it as bad.
There's on site that I don't recall off the top of my head that has a group of good writers that had previously worked for the bigger ones... still really good content, just not a lot of it, which is okay, so much is copy & paste on most of the others.
I live in a small city, local rag only comes out once a week, they finally redid their site, I probably am more geared to read online than I am to do a paper as there's just not a lot going on. When you live in a town where everyone knows everyone, news travels faster by word of mouth. ;)
Read another small piece from Bob, they are keeping one mag only.
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Permalink Reply by Bob on
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I just received a solicitation today from Scene to renew my membership, claiming I would receive weekly issues, etc.
If they plan to give up their weekly format, then they should not be sending out these solicitations.
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