Here is the partial list of the first 42 layoffs at the Plain Dealer sent by a source: More layoffs to come. Did the company draw straws? Note: Among the victims was Harlan Spector, the guild president. A tipoff of what the owners are trying to accomplish in its attempt to break the guild . (Ahem. It won't work.)
Source: "48 layoffs from guild expected today. We're at 42. Still many people unaccounted for".
Cynthia C Baecker clerk
Margaret Bernstein columnist
Sandi Boyd clerk
Tom Breckenridge reporter
Regina Brett columnist
Reid Brown artist
Dave Davis reporter
Stan Donaldson reporter
Bob Fortuna reporter
Pat Galbincea reporter
Mark Gillispie reporter
Lisa Griffis layout editor
John Gruner reporter
John Horton reporter
Felesia Jackson graphic artist
David Jardy library clerk
Adrian Johnson layout editor
Ellen Jan Kleinerman reporter
Doug Kramer copy editor
John Kuehner city desk editor (night)
John Luttermoser copy editor
John Mangels reporter
Erik Maruschak sports clerk
Carl Matzelle sports clerk
Joe Maxse sports reporter
Deborah Miller copy editor
Mike O'malley reporter
James W Owens graphics artist
Mike Peticca reporter
Bill Piotrowski layout editor
Racquel Robinson letters editor
Timothy Rogers reporter
Don Rosenberg reporter
Anita Russo clerk
Tonya Sams reporter
Michael Scott reporter
Scott Shaw photographer
Harlan Spector reporter
Edith Starzyk reporter
Peggy Turbett photographer
Eileen Zakareckis clerk
Brian Zawicki library clerk
UPDATE: Apparently there were some PD staffers on the above list forwarded to me by a PD source who opted for a voluntary exit. But the number of people out of work doesn't change.
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I think Harlan was a voluntary layoff.
I am sorry to see the newspapers in NE Ohio falling on hard times. My dad, Sol Shwartz, was a longtime guild member and an editor at the ABJ for years (and I believe a friend of a certain dude named Abe}. He passed away in 2002. I don't think he'd believe what is going on now.
I greatly enjoyed meeting Mike Scott on an IJNR tour a few years back. I cannot see the value in losing someone like him.
There are several errors on this list, which are corrected at my website.
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/07/31/cleveland-plain-dealer-hit-list/
Yep. Every single one. :(
Yep. Every single one. :(
Sorry to see Peticca go. Seems Branson Wright has somehow dodged another bullet at the PD. Got to wonder who he has pictures of...
Total "car crash." Couldn't help but stare (at the list).
Bad news, in so many ways.
Thanks for posting. All diehard PD readers want to know this info, and you put it out there. A service.
he first poster is correct. Harlan Spector was a volunteer.
The Plain Dealer can go to hell. They are wrecking lives here. The greedy monsters who own it appear to be taking a profitable paper and making it unprofitable so they will have an excuse to close it down in a few years.
Yes, I know all of them and worked with most of them. I took a buyout in 2006 and haven't looked back. However, I'm heartbroken for those who lost their jobs as well as those who remain to pick up the pieces.
I can only tell them that having found myself in their situation twice, there can be life AFTER newspapers!
My condolences to all those on the list. Thank you for the education and entertainment you've provided over the years. I'm a long time Plain Dealer reader and I will be canceling my subscription tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I know a half-dozen of them. One is a good friend. Pretty soon we'll be looking at two metropolitan newspapers resembling glorified weeklies. What a shame.
Is it true that Dec 2013 layoffs are coming?
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