74 take AJC buyout
Seventy-four full-time newsroom staff members took the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s latest downsizing buyout offer.
Atlanta Unfiltered posted Editor Julia Wallace’s internal memo with the full list. Among the departing are such reporting stalwarts as Jim Auchmutey, Moni Basu, Drew Jubera and Andy Miller, as well as music critic Sonia Murray, art critic Catherine Fox, and three fantastic photographers: Rich Addicks, Louie Favorite and Joey Ivansco. Fresh Loaf’s Scott Henry has a few more details .
Unfiltered’s Jim Walls says the AJC newsroom had 475 staff members two years ago (I thought Julia Wallace told me last year that the 2007 high point was around 495, but close enough). With this round of buyouts and layoffs, the paper plans to get down to 235 newsroom employees.
Related posts:
- AJC’s redesign blues No. Not that kind of blues. The paper now features...
- AJC Wallace’s memo on Tucker Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor Julia Wallace sent a memo to the...
- Bookman off AJC editorial board The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's shakeup turns out to be more significant...
- Jim Walls’ hopeful project A former AJC editor aims to fill the gap in...
- Sunday AJCs do a bit of muckraking After weeks of catching grief for its redesign, its staff...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
2 Comments on 74 take AJC buyout
-
Ralph McGill stirs | Atlanta Unsheltered on
Tue, 14th Apr 2009 10:47 am
-
AJC’s redesign blues | Atlanta Unsheltered on
Tue, 28th Apr 2009 12:11 pm
[...] changes competed yesterday with the unannounced, but leaked, news that 74 full-time AJC newsroom employees accepted the paper’s latest downsizing buyouts. In the long run, however, the revamping of [...]
[...] talked with great optimism about 2.0. Unfortunately, it’s being implemented on the heals of staff cutbacks and the gutting of the paper’s editorial board, which are likely to make the redesign feel to [...]
Tell me what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!
Our new website!
