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From the monthly archives: December 2008
I used to write for the Star-Ledger, a first-class newspaper, and this makes me sick:
NEW YORK — When a newspaper cuts its staff, those who remain in the depleted newsroom become valuable. But as The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. slowly says farewell to 151 newsroom folks who took buyouts last month, at least two longtime journalists have been reassigned to the mailroom.
Reporter Jason Jett and Assistant Deputy Photo Editor Mitchell Seidel have been filing, sorting, and delivering mail for more than a week, according to sources.
Jett and Seidel, who could not be reached for comment, apparently declined to take one of the buyouts offered this fall as part of a companywide move to cut costs.
Publisher George Arwady threatened to sell or close the Advance Publications daily last summer if at least 200 buyouts were not taken and new deals forged with two unions.
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via Buyout-Depleted ‘Star-Ledger’ Reassigns Two Journos — To Mailroom.
From Harper’s Index: A retrospective of the Bush era — Harper’s Magazine. (subscription req.):
Minimum number of close-up photographs of Bush’s hands owned by his current chief of staff, Josh Bolten : 4
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