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Alas, it has arrived. Today is the deadline for the Chronicle buyout. If the ailing publication can't get rid of 150 jobs by 5 p.m., the paper will start layoffs next month. A slew of noted journalists (surprisingly?) opted for the buyout. SFist's favorite book sniffer and City Bright, Frances Dinkelspiel, has the official word on just who on the editorial staff took management's buyout offer of up to one year's pay, plus health insurance.
Joel Selvin (music)
Carl Hall (science reporter)
Tom Meyer (editorial cartoonist)
Zachary Coile (Washington D.C. bureau reporter)
Nancy Gay (sports)
Jesse Hamlin, Edward Guthmann, and Heidi Benson (culture writers)
Sabin Russell (science)
Alison Biggar, (editor, Chronicle Magazine)
Sylvia Rubin (fashion)
Bernadette Tansey (biotech reporter)
Kim Komenich, Michael Maloney, Craig Lee, Eric Luse, Mark Costatini, and Kurt Rogers (photogs)
Kevin Albert (editorial assistant)
Greg Ambrose (copy editor)
Charles Burress (Berkeley beat)
Peter Cafone (sports copy editor)
Ken Costa (graphic designer)
Dan Giesin (sports copy editor)
Janice Greene, (editorial assistant)
Elizabeth Hughes (copy editor)
Leslie Innes (Datebook editor)
Timothy Innes (foreign news wire editor)
Rod Jones (copy editor, news)
Eric Jungerman (designer)
Kathy Kerrihard (library researcher)
Simar Khanna (editor of Home and Garden section)
Bonnie Lemons (copy editor, news)
Glenn Mayeda (editorial assistant, sports)
Johnny Miller (library researcher)
Shirley-Anne Owden (copy editor, features)
Courtenay Peddle (copy editor, news)
Lee Sims (copy editor, news)
Michelle Smith (sports)
Patricia Yollin (metro reporter)
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wow that's pretty sad. next month the remaining will be forced to lip sync for their lives!
Oh, man. The LAST people the Chron needs to lose are copy editors.
It's sad watching the paper die slowly like this.
I wish somebody would give me a years pay and health insurance.
I'd hire Bonnie Lemons just for her name. I could walk around pretending to be Jack Donaghy (like I don't already).
Speaking of just-for-her-name: Sports Writer Nancy Gay!
Why isn't Mick LaSalle on this list?
Yawn. This list was up on Friday.
Kim Komenich won the Pulitzer Prize.
Notice how they're letting go of multiple shooters and copy editors, in the months before they switch on a new shining (non-union) printing press? They're going tabloid, folks (which is to say they're changing the format of the paper, from broadsheet to tabloid, not reporting on Jenna Bush's dalliances with demon bat boy). You don't need as many people to make that product, and you especially don't need as many cranky veteran photographers asking why their work is printed the size of a postage stamp.
Kim Komenich won the Pulitzer Prize.
Yawn. We know this already, genius. Also, they are not going to a tabloid size, they just
unveiled a very expensive redesign and they aren't planning another.
I wish they would go to a tabloid size as it's significantly easier to read. The tabloid size and lack of jump cuts (seriously, enough with these already... they're annoying as hell) are the only two good things that the Examiner does.
The Chron is going deeper and deeper down the drain.
Even I questioned the Chronicle's own priorities when they made the "snuggie" pub crawl their lead story on Sunday and brushed the missing kid story to Monday's newspaper.
http://www.akit.org/2009/03/snuggies-over-missing-child-what-great.html
Wow, I don't recognize a single name on this list. Not one. I hope now they'll be able to find a publication where they'll actually get read.
Nancy Gay is/was a prominent sports columnist, and i saw (but never read) selvin's stuff. Their talents will probably be missed.
I wish CW Nevius or Jon Carroll took the money and scrammed.
I effing love Jon Carroll... take it back.
And please, let's not give Nevius the idea that he deserved any more money than he's already gotten.
Please take the buyout, Tim Goodman.... Please take the buyout!!!
"Bring me the head of DJTennessee"....is what Tim would probably write in response to your post.