A longtime cartoonist, a county hall reporter, and 18 more employees have departed from some of the biggest newspaper's in America this week, each leaving in a fashion befitting the industry's current free-fall state.
The Wichita Eagle lost Richard Crowson, who had been the paper's cartoonist since 1987. There were once 350 editorial cartoonists in the country, the Wichita Business Journal reports, but that number has been whittled to just 75.
The Miami Herald's Matthew Pinzur, a country hall reporter, left the newspaper to take a six-figure job as a "special assistant to Miami-Dade County Manager Geroge Burgess," the Miami New Times reports.
Both people in the newsroom and that work for Miami-Dade County are concerned about the move, with one Herald reporter saying he felt "jilted" and a county official saying the move "makes me very suspect."
And the Tacoma News Tribune is cutting 18 more employees, the newspaper's publisher told his staff Sept. 24. Just one of the 18 employees will be laid off; 17 will be offered buyouts. The newspaper cut 82 staffers in July. During this round of layoffs, just six of the 18 come from the editorial staff and just four are reporters.
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