Oregon Media Insiders

Promoted from the comments in the KMTR thread.

The Eugene Register-Guard has announced it's cutting 30 positions, a reduction of more than 11% of its workforce:

[Publisher Tony] Baker said 13 vacant positions at the newspaper will not be filled. The newspaper also is offering buyout and early retirement incentives to employees throughout the paper.

If the company does not meet its payroll reduction target through those options, layoffs will be necessary, he said. The planned cuts account for about $1.7 million in pay and benefits, he said. The company has about 260 full-time and 140 part-time employees.

Employees will be given until June 27 to make application to accept a buyout offer. Baker said he hopes to have the staff reductions implemented by the end of August.

Baker said in a letter to employees that the paper is running between $300,000 and $400,000 short of projections every month this year.

From PDXRadio, we hear about the death of longtime Rose City Radio ad saleswoman Ada McCormack. From Doug Zanger's remembrance in AdAge:

Ada spent 27 years at Rose City Radio and was, without question, a star in every sense of the word. Not only was she a true professional but she was loved by everyone who was fortunate enough to know her. What I remember most about Ada was her smile. Her face completely lit up and her eyes were as bright as the sun when she was happy -- which was pretty much every time she rolled into my studio. I honestly don't ever remember a time when she wasn't smiling. She loved her job, loved Rose City Radio, loved radio and cared deeply about her clients and colleagues.

Professionally, Ada's work could very well be considered a "small agency success story." She started out in the industry young, persevered through just about everything thrown her way, never took "no" for an answer, always said "yes" to her clients and was successful because of it. As an account rep in radio, one is often forced to make decisions that we, as small agencies, have to make every day. Reps also looks at their client lists as "small businesses" and Ada ran one of the very best in Portland radio.

A Mass will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow at St. Clare Catholic Church; a vigil service will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight, also in the church.

Gorgeous day. We dawdled all the way down to the OMI caffeine bureau and back just to postpone going back to work. How's your summer shaping up?