Staff meetings

Management hosted a big staff meeting yesterday evening and this morning-afternoon. Yesterday’s went close to 90 minutes. In either or both meetings, editor Steve Smith, managing editor Gary Graham, senior presentation editor Geoff Pinnock, online director Ryan Pitts, associate editor John Webster and senior editor Carla Savalli made themselves available for Q&A about the recent staffing changes memo Smith has distributed internally and publicly .

In safe nonspecific terms: There was Q&A about what happens next, how the budget reality changes newsroom commitments, and what the memo means.