San Jose update

Copy editor Dave Curtis is leaving San Jose. That will reduce the layoffs by one.

 

Some tidbits from the Pipeline, not pretty stuff:

The aforementoned copy editor left on his own. The total take from sports is two copy editors, a part-time clerk. And Sharks writer Victor Chi. Who has been there 12 or so years and is close to his wedding date.

Biggest uproar among staff: No manager above assistant level got cut is the RUMOR. If it is true, well, it is interesting because the management structure dates to the days of the 400-person newsroom and it is now about half that.

Damn.

 

And, of course, people who left of their own accord won't be replaced:

* Assistant sports editor/design Tim Ball.
* Assistant sports editor/nights Will McCahill.
* G.A. and soccer writer Dylan Hernandez.
* Copy editor Dave Curtis.

 

I'm really sorry to hear about Victor Chi.

Very, very nice person who did a good job on that Sharks beat. He, Ross McKeown and San Jose GM Doug Wilson used to eat pizza together just before games. No business talk. Just life.

 

http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp

 

Here is the list of laid-off employees:
Peter Allen, sports clerk
Stewart Applin, copy editor
Jennifer Aquino, night city editor
Morna Baird, library
Michelle Chandler, business reporter
Victor Chi, Sharks beat writer
Barbara Egbert, copy editor
Marilee Enge, copy editor
Robin Evans, copy editor
Kate Folmar, Sacramento bureau
Rod Foo, reporters
Susanna Frohman, photographer
Constance Gove ?
Brian Griffin, designer
Terri Hart, imaging technician
Brad Kava, music critic
Dikran Keraghosian, sports copy editor
Tony Lioce, features assigning editor
Marian Liu, hip-hop reporter
Tom Moore, sports copy editor
Raymond Moses, imaging technician
Kim Boatman Nauman, features
John Orr, copy editor
Dan Reed, metro reporter
Janice Rombeck, metro reporter
Colin Seymour, copy editor
Khan T. Weinberg
Nicole Wong, business reporter
Sara Wykes, metro reporter
Steve Yvaska, office manager
Steve Zuckerman, biz

Here is the list of voluntary resignations since the layoffs announcement on June 6:

Tim Ball, sports design
Margarte Bethel, ?
Roger Cohn, ?
Dave Curtis, sports copy
Dylan Hernandez, sports
Jeff Hindenach, designer
Elizabeth Howton, metro assigning editor
Wes Killingbeck, graphics
Will McCahill, sports
Glenn Rabinowitz, copy desk chief
Akili Ramsess, photo
Elisabeth Rubinfein, top metro editor
Meri Simon, photo
Yomi Wronge, metro reporter
Oie Yeh, copy editor

News report:

http://blogs.eastbayexpress.com/92510/2007/07/the_mercury_news_lays_off_31_e.php