‘We’re simply looking to turn a modest profit,’ Boston Globe editor says in...
The Boston Globe and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are offering more buyouts. “I think the following line is on the save/get key of every editor in America: This may be the last buyout we offer,” writes...
View ArticleGannett offers early retirement package to veteran employees, 55 and older
Gannett CEO Bob Dickey sent this letter to employees Thursday morning: Good Morning, I wanted to let you know that today we are offering eligible, long-term Gannett employees within certain business...
View ArticleGannett’s Chief People Officer would like to see more people volunteer to...
A Romenesko reader writes: “I am not eligible for the early retirement buyout, but several of my colleagues are. They feel like they are now being pressured to take it, even though it’s supposed to be...
View Article‘In the old days, being a journalist was about as cool as you could get’
A Romenesko reader writes: “In what has become a common occurrence for The Arizona Republic, another year has gone by and the company has shed another round of talented journalists. This time we lost...
View ArticleSeattle Times and Newsday offer buyouts
Seattle Times editor Kathy Best writes in her buyouts memo: “I don’t want to lose any of you and I know that doing so carries a price for our newsroom and for our readers. But we don’t have a choice if...
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Departing Oregonian reporter: ‘If you write a story to win an award, you...
Two-time Pulitzer winner Richard Read wrote this farewell note to Oregonian colleagues after taking the paper’s buyout and leaving the paper on Dec. 31. “Hopefully other reporters can get a little bit...
View ArticleLee closes its Montana state bureau and cuts two veteran political reporters
MT scuttlebutt: Lee Enterprises to shutter Helena bureau. @UMJSchool — Larry Abramson (@abramsonwrites) May 21, 2015 University of Montana j-school dean and former NPR reporter Larry Abramson was one...
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