At a time when the paper is laying off staff left and right, it seems odd for the Times to have a “newly created job of executive director/Communications.” Wouldn’t it just have been cheaper to acknowledge the fact that pretty much everyone at the paper reads LA Observed and just put Roderick on the CC list of internal memos thereby cutting out the middle man?

From the internal memo, via LA Observed (natch).

* With all the great work and significant accomplishments happening throughout the company, we want our employees to know about them … first.

Nice idea but it won’t work. Like any company, the Times will want to continue to “manage” internal communications while blogs like LA Observed will continue to report on what is really happening at the paper. I’ll give them credit however at least they didn’t pull an HP.

While on the topic of the Times, Jeff Johnson is now out of a job (evidently not appreciating this). No word on whether the Times will eliminate his position and replace it with a VP of Everything is Really Okay. Are we going to see Tribune opening up a can of “Santa Barbara News-Press” style whoop-ass?

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