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Southcomm lays off more employees, including Post Politic’s Kleinheider

By Richard Lawson
Southcomm CEO Chris Ferrell

Southcomm CEO Chris Ferrell

Source: Layoffs a ‘blood bath.’

By Richard Lawson

Nashville media giant Southcomm announced a new round of layoffs today, including arguably the state’s most popular political blogger.

The company, which owns the Nashville Scene, the City Paper and NashvillePost.com, has been steadily laying off employees since 2008.

Most of today’s layoffs came on the City Paper side. Probably the biggest name to go in the latest round is political blogger A.C. Kleinheider who penned the popular Post Politics blog. Other victims of the layoff include veteran Nashville journalist Vince Troia, the City Paper’s managing editor, senior writer Ron Wynn and Tennessee Titans reporter Terry McCormick. McCormick is said to account for a large portion of the newspaper’s web traffic.

“It was a blood bath,” said one source said.

All told, Southcomm shaved off approximately $300,000 in salaries and benefits, according to sources close to the company, perhaps more.

Chris Ferrell, Southcomm’s chief executive officer, couldn’t be immediately reached for comment but did assert in a statement released on NashvillePost.com that the company was financially stable and that “none of the company’s nine publications is at risk.”

These layoffs come as Southcomm lost a major contract to run legal announcements each week. Those went to the new owner of The Westview, previously a middling weekly newspaper in the Bellevue area. The Memphis Daily News recently bought the paper and plans to take the paper countywide.  The Arkansas company that places the legal announcements also does heavy business with the Memphis paper, which specializes in public notice advertising.

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