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A blog for The People of the Dallas Morning News to share information about a career-altering event that they had no control to stop.
Management wants to trim roughly 20-30 jobs through attrition by next June. What are the chances?
Why are we here?
Because it is honorable to recognize the individuals who toiled in the fields, doing their part to make the Dallas Morning News as good a product as it could be. But due to financial forces beyond their control, they were made a "voluntary severance offer." Had that been in copy, an editor would have changed that to read "buyout."
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Buyout class of '08
- Abrams, Kerri: page designer/F!D Luxe and Looks, news art
- Anderson, Karin Shaw: reporter, metro
- Beauchamp, Jenni: news assistant, metro
- Becker, Stephen: assistant editor, arts
- Black, James: graphics editor, news art
- Daniel, Mike: writer/copy editor, arts
- Dugger, Jason: design editor/sports, news art
- Dunklin, Mary: Healthy Living editor, lifestyles
- Eckberg, Jon: paginator/copy editor, sports
- Fox, Laurie: reporter, metro
- Hawkins, Amy: office manager, state
- Jau, Mei-Chun: senior video producer/editor.
- Kelly, Terry: senior assistant news editor, news desk
- Leeson, David: photographer, videographer
- Marta, Suzanne: reporter, business
- McLemore, David: reporter, state
- Miller, Jeff: assistant editor, sports
- Moore, Joel: page designer/copy editor, sports
- Pinson, Travis: copy editor/paginator, Quick
- Pruitt, Richard Michael: photographer, photo
- Schlegel, Erich: photographer, Austin bureau.
- Velez, Chris: paginator/copy editor, Quick
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3 comments:
A well-placed management source confirmed Friday that the official number of accepted buyout-takers is 24 in the newsroom. If you believe the earlier statements by upper management that they needed 40 people to avoid a layoff, that means 16 news staffers will have to be cut to satisfy corporate.
And if you believe that, I'd like to talk to you about real estate opportunities on Galveston Island.
If you are keeping up with span of control issues, no one above the level of news editor or assignment editor took the buyout. That means the total number of worker bees dropped a little while the number of edito/managers remained about the same. Supposedly, the number of editors who will be returned to reporting ranks will be small. This could mean that 10 or more line editors in Local News alone could be targeted for involuntary departure while the upper ranks of editors (department heads and management group members) remain status quo.
To both anonymouses, please contact us at therockoftruth@gmail.com.
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