How to Manage a Newsroom Shutdown

Liz: Al Jazeera America is in the process of shutting down the first major cable news launch since Fox News in 1996. As you know, the decision came last month when Al Jazeera America’s owners, the Qatari government, said the operation was simply no longer viable. That’s a big and brutal job, to shut down a newsroom. It seems the first key decision management made was to declare the end won’t come until April—giving employees time to find work. But there are other issues—what happens to the content on their website, for one—that the owners and local management need to address. Any advice to them, or to the newsroom employees trying to absorb the change?

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