"I Just went into an Office and They Shoved a Bunch of Paper at Me"

FTVLIve was the FIRST to tell you that big cuts were going to go down a Gray owned stations in Springfield, MO. 

Then FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that the cuts had gone down and that Gray was going to consolidate the newsrooms of KYTV and KSPR. 

Of course that meant many people had a very bad Friday, including longtime KYTV Anchor  Jerry Jacob. 

"I just went into an office and they shoved a bunch of paper at me," Jacob said. He also says that he was not told by management why he was laid off. "They just fired a whole bunch of people today," he said.

Looks like the final body count is around a dozen staffers, which is huge in the size of a market like Springfield. 

Brian McDonough, general manager of KY3, KSPR and the Ozarks CW, confirmed the restructuring in a Friday evening news release. He described the move as a means to create a single, more efficient news gathering organization.

“It had been increasingly difficult to properly divide resources between our two separate newsrooms. Our world is changing, and the demand for immediate original local content continues to grow across all our news platforms. We needed to adjust our staffing to reflect the changes around us.”

Guess it's easy to "adjust the staffing" when there is a lot less staff to "adjust."

Not sure how whacking a dozen people makes you a more efficient news gathering organization?

But then again, that's just me.

H/T News Leader  

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