Layoffs in St. Louis

[playthrough]

Sent to me via PM:

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch let go of 39 today. Three were in sports, including assistant sports editor Cameron Hollway.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/2DB38857B2A2866C86257538007BE3DB?OpenDocument

 

[Moderator1]

Any news on the other two? Tough stuff, I know Fredericksburg had some layoffs this week. Tulsa, St. Louis *** thus far it seems 2009 is sucking every bit as much as 2008.

 

[Angola!]

Sent to me via PM:

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch let go of 39 today. Three were in sports, including assistant sports editor Cameron Hollway.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/2DB38857B2A2866C86257538007BE3DB?OpenDocument

Holy ****. Cameron Hollway is really, really good people. I drank beers with him a couple of summers ago and he is legit.

This is shocking to me.

 

[funky_mountain]

sadly, 2009 will probably suck more than 2008, which might look like a good year when all is said and done.

 

[playthrough]

The other two layoffs were copy editors, Neil Joellenbeck and another whose name I didn't get.

 

[thegrifter]

Cameron is good people. I hope he lands on his feet.

 

[Smokey33]

Those laid off:

# On Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my employer, laid off 39 people, 14 of them from the newsroom: Amy Verkamp-McCarthy, copy editor
# Ted Rodgers, copy editor
# Sharon Fuller, copy editor
# Mike Florio, copy editor
# Lisa Godoski, Web producer
# Neil Joellenbeck, Web producer
# Kimberly Ratliff, Web producer
# Susan Luberda, features assistant
# Dennis Sweeso, photo assistant
# Eric Mink, commentary page editor
# Annette Reaving, assistant to the editorial page editor
# Cameron Hollway, assistant sports editor
# Tim Poor, assistant metro editor
# Sandy Wood, assistant metro editor

http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2009/01/08/39-laid-off-from-the-post-dispatch/

 

[The Good Doctor]

Three Web people? That smacks of "We have no plan for the future and don't know what the **** we're doing."

 

[henryhenry]

cameron was hands-down the best assistant sports editor in eastern missouri.

 

[Drip]

Ted Rodgers is a long time and solid vet.
Got a feeling more depatures are coming here.

 

[lone star scribe]

Moddy, what's the news in Fredericksburg?

 

[Moderator1]

Seven - I think - out of the news room. Sports, I think, took one hit. I know it happened, I'm not sure on all the details.

 

[Drip]

Seven - I think - out of the news room. Sports, I think, took one hit. I know it happened, I'm not sure on all the details.

Didn't they just add a body in Fredericksberg about a month or two ago?

 

[Moderator1]

Seven - I think - out of the news room. Sports, I think, took one hit. I know it happened, I'm not sure on all the details.

Didn't they just add a body in Fredericksberg about a month or two ago?

Maybe so.
Not sure what Fredicksburg did, though.

 

[joe]

Quote from a friend at the P-D, who kept her job -- for now: "They laid off a total of 14 people from the newsroom. In a two year time span the newsroom through buy outs or laid off has lost more than a 100 people."

Damn.

 

[Saint Lou]

This is hard to believe.

Hollway did a great job there.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Mary Junct just gave herself a bonus check with all the money she "saved" in St. Louis.

Douchnozzle.

 

[Basil Exposition]

Those laid off:

# On Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my employer, laid off 39 people, 14 of them from the newsroom: Amy Verkamp-McCarthy, copy editor
# Ted Rodgers, copy editor
# Sharon Fuller, copy editor
# Mike Florio, copy editor
# Lisa Godoski, Web producer
# Neil Joellenbeck, Web producer
# Kimberly Ratliff, Web producer
# Susan Luberda, features assistant
# Dennis Sweeso, photo assistant
# Eric Mink, commentary page editor
# Annette Reaving, assistant to the editorial page editor
# Cameron Hollway, assistant sports editor
# Tim Poor, assistant metro editor
# Sandy Wood, assistant metro editor

http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2009/01/08/39-laid-off-from-the-post-dispatch/

Not a single content producer (er, writer) there. I'm seeing this trend coming my way, too. Next up for extinction are those folks who know how to report but can't write particularly well.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Eric Mink and Tim Poor have been there forever and done about everything; I think both came over from the Globe-Democrat. Wonder if Joe Pollack is still there, and if he's reached 500 bills yet.

 

[Saint Lou]

I've heard two of the people let go were a married couple.

With all these buyouts and layoffs everywhere around the country, that has to be one of the worst decisions I've heard of.

What kind of heartless person decides to fire a man and his wife on the same freaking day?