Layoffs in Palm Beach

Saddest part about this news is that we are no longer shocked when it comes down the pipeline. Just look at the thread directly underneath this one about the SI photo staff. But this one hits closer to home for me because I have known Greg Stoda for years and worked alongside him at a number of different events. I also did freelance work for Dave Tepps and both of these men are the classiest of the class. Here's hoping they both quickly land on their feet, which I am confident they will.

 

Excellent journalists, good people. No end to the bad news these days.

 

Tepps is a good guy. So is Stoda. Last one around please turn off the lights.

 

Just plain awful. And I guess they're going to go without a sports editor?

 

How many years in a row did the Post earn a Triple Crown at the APSE awards?
Hell of a run. And now these guys can't call it their sports section anymore. What a shame.

 

They did have a good run. But I wonder if some of the Triple Crowns were due in part to similar-sized papers "playing up" in the competition. I know, for example, that the Sun-Sentinel always competed only in the large-paper category (even though their circulation was only slightly higher than PB's. Did any other papers do that?

 

The Post has a capable, well-regarded assistant sports editor in Mark Bradley (not to be confused with the columnist in Atlanta), so the guess here is that he'll run the department for now. I could see them going without designating an actual "sports editor."

It's safe to say that for a paper of its size (key nuance there), the Post's sports section was one of the best back in the day, although it probably benefited in those Triple Crown competitions from the way the APSE contests worked. The section was highly competitive with the two to the south, and better in some ways.

 

So getting rid of Tepps was a salary dump. I know that happens a lot now bit it still sucks.

 

That's sad news. I learned a lot from Tepps in Miami, and he was one of those former colleagues who reached out to me during my recent unemployment.

 

There was a round of layoffs at the Sun-Sentinel recently that didn't make the board. I know they lost at least one writer in sports.

 

Sun-Sentinel layoffs included sports writer Steve Gorten, cartoonist Chan Lowe (son of Carol Channing, btw, and a 30+year employee), photo editor Carl Seibert and the remaining 4 ad proofing positions.