Star-Telegram update

lone star scribe...thanks for the clearing up of the engel duo..okay, both over there....
and yes, do remember now about galloway having been over in dallas.
funny, my friend at the FWST hadn't heard a thing about evan grant departing the DMN. did that happen this week?

 

Galloway was at Dallas for a long, long time before the FWST lured him away to the tune of 300 grand a year.

 

Would layoffs, pay reductions AND furloughs be the Triple Crown?

 

sure sounds like it.
there's a big story in today's USA Today regarding furloughs..interesting. and depressing.

 

i'm sorry but that's way too much money

 

300 freakin' grand?
damn.

 

That's when he signed his first deal. I believe it was for five years, $1.5 million. He's since "resigned."

A friend and former co-worker, who also photographed my wedding, was laid off last year by the FWST. Her husband took a buyout today. Worked out well for him, though. He was set to start teaching in August anyway. Still a sad day for two people who worked for newspapers for a long time and contributed a lot to every place they worked.

 

The Galloway money came at a time when K-R actually wanted FWST to compete with DMN. DMN tried to start an Arlington paper. War. FWST fought back with preps, Galloway, hired Celeste Williams as kick-ass sports editor. From about 2001-2006, one of the best sports sections around, at the very least the equal of the DMN.

Galloway also was/is pulling in about $150,000-$200,000 a year for his radio gig. During his last contract negotiation last summer, he took a cut and asked Executive Editor Jim Witt if that would save some people. Witt said No, it wouldn't.

Galloway's hire made everybody in sports realize that management was serious. I know, sounds crazy given current state of affairs.

 

He's made his presence known, and like SockPuppet said, he's making more than a half-million a year with the paper and radio gigs. Surprisingly, Jim Witt was the one who wanted to lure Galloway away.

Huge salary aside, Galloway is a helluva writer and one of the nicest guys around.

 

That Galloway move by Jim Witt is the only thing he's done postive.

 

Galloway is a fine human being, and I've enjoyed every second around him.

 

In better days, a newsroom staff of 405 full-time equivalents, including a sports staff of 90:

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