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- L.A. Times Roll of Honor--Those Who Left, 27-38 - Ken Reich
- The Courant To Make Deep Cuts, 'Reinvent' Paper - Courant
- Goldstein On Finke; Finke On Goldstein - Nikki Finke
- Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching - Business Week
- Employeeeeeeeee for sale! - Tribune Two Step
- Layoffs at San Jose Mercury News - Tina Dupuy
- India: Editing broadsheets abroad - TJ Sullivan
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From the Baltimore Sun's Tim Ryan regarding the latest severance package: While Tribune does not have a formal severance policy, the formula that the company is using to determine benefits payable to employees affected by the current workforce reductions is more generous than any formula that the company may use after 2008."
Read and heed folks. The days of the generous buyouts look to be over. If you are in danger of losing your job or are sick of worrying about when the ax is going to fall on you or the newspaper industry, now would be the time to take the next package. Not to worry. If you are worth your salt, there is life after The Times. I had many offers after my separation, and am better off now than I was then. I was still getting offers nine months later.
I went to work within 25 days of leaving The Times, worked for two days, got a better offer from another company, quit, and was employed with full benefits (better than Times benefits) three days later. No worries, a respectable industry, great bosses, and everybody seems happy. Moral is very good, very little griping, closer to home, offered a promotion already, lovin life, and the HR folks are totally different - no SS mindless idiots.
If you have the itch and your talents are saleable – get out, while the getting is good.
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