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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 TOG on
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wow. Shocked to see Steve Waid go. He was around when I started subscribing to the " Grand National Scene " way back in 1983. ( when I was 13 )
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Permalink Reply by alan4s on
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Probably. But I still feel funny reading internet stories on my mobile phone while sitting on the shitter. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer a magazine or newspaper there.
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Permalink Reply by Blues on
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Get a tablet computer! You can put in in a little rack next to the can, just like a newspaper.... probably can find a recording of shuffling newspaper you can play too!!
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Permalink Reply by zoomsss on
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I read 30 people were let go.
Personally, those I respected as writers really aren't in the business any longer and am so tired of any Nascar media shoving crap at me because they think it sells Nascar is a joke and there are getting to be more and more of those.... ie Danica is Nascar's saviour. If it wasn't for Mark and Robby (and a few others), there'd be no interest for me... and I honestly don't understand why either are still messing with it.
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Permalink Reply by vak7 on
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I would bet the web site will remain but print media is a lost art. Besides the production costs, there has never really been much integrity in the field of journalism. It's what kept me from following my dream of being a sports writer eons ago, back in the day when baseball was still debating free agency. Those with ethics were eaten alive! I just wasn't strong enough at the time to survive. So while there will always be a market for bathroom reading material, it's about all most of those paper rags are good for.
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The hint out there is that things will be combined into one?
I wish there were writers out there that made me want to read them regularly, that truly write from the heart and speak to the fans. It's gotten to the point where it's a race to break the news or boast about it if they had inside scoop they've been sitting on and all the while saying it's their 'hunch' of what's to come. I feel like we are just pawns now.
I had a friend that wanted to try her hand writing, took a few classes, lots of work, little payback... she did some small stuff online for a while and soon thereafter stopped.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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Now a days folks think that the internet is a source of truth thus a hand held fat firm magazine seems to have all but lost its worth. Me, I read Musky Hunter and if it were to go out of print and I lost my hand held book I dought if I would bother with the/a replacement web site. Now the net has any and all idiots blogging (hate that term) and barfing opinions portrayed as facts that has rendered the population weak in the mind brain dead. Thus therefore and or for the most part....SHEEP to be sheared as the political agenda uses the loss of another freedom of the press to lead .........whooaahh....I almost blogged
News papers are next, nothing beats a printed hand held publication but with $$$ becoming an endangered American animal (see Levis job loss and Briggs and Stratton as reference points) how can it survive the world has gotten smaller and time has sped up....just like the good book said. Now theres one hand held publication you can't replace......or have they?
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Technology has taken over... instant news... my worse-half :P wants to download Stephen King books now, you may have heard my screaming (another gadget to take up space and worry about it's working right and it would be me doing it), I would like to back away from technology just a bit but the world won't let that happen. All I see is more loss of jobs.
... back to Scene info ... [via] Pocky still has his job...
NASCAR Scene to merge into enhanced NASCAR Illustrated
Street & Smith’s Sports Group today announced the merger of NASCAR Scene into an enhanced NASCAR Illustrated and plans to concentrate race and breaking news coverage of the sport on its Web site, scenedaily.com.
Subscribers to the weekly NASCAR Scene will begin receiving the monthly NASCAR Illustrated, beginning with the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Preview Issue in February.
NASCAR Illustrated will see the addition of a number of Scene’s award-winning staffers and its most popular features as it continues to offer a unique behind-the-scenes look at the country’s most popular form of motorsports. The enhanced magazine will also add coverage of NASCAR’s Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series for the first time.
Full coverage of breaking news about the sport, as well race coverage, will continue on scenedaily.com.
“We’re excited about the opportunity to offer our expanded subscriber base NASCAR Illustrated’s special look at the fun and excitement that the sport offers,” Publisher Michael J. Fresina said. “With the opening of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in spring and what should be one of the most competitive seasons ever on the track, 2010 promises to be a special year for the sport’s fans and our readers, and we’re looking forward to it.”
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