Star-Telegram update

[micke77]

yea, that's right, believe T.R. has already left. couldn't remember. i need to get a list of the staffers over there from my friend.
but yes, 11 to be gone. seven writers out of that number.

my friend said the tenure situation being mentioned is a "bunch of bull crap", but he didn't elaborate. he's just holding on for now.

 

[Football_Bat]

So no shoulder-tapping until they sort out the buyout situation, apparently. I imagine a lot of long-timers will be getting out while the getting is good.

 

[micke77]

just got another email from my friend at FWST...he said all sports columnists appear to be safe for now. and he added, "which is kinda surprising."

 

[SockPuppet]

Well, after the Jim Witt e-mail to the entire newsroom, Lebreton, Reeves and Floyd-Engel were certainly as safe as safe could be.

 

[GuessWho]

How big is/was that staff? Man, that used to be one HELL of a section. I mean, a super section.
fork ship fork.

Think I heard they currently have 26 writers. But not for long. :'(

 

[GlenQuagmire]

This is all incredibly frustrating to hear. But I'm glad that the senior management will not be receiving any bonuses. There's no reason for any leaders in under-performing companies making job cuts to be getting any incentives.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

Just heard that they're losing six photographers.

 

[SockPuppet]

Photographers? Who needs 'em. Just give the few remaining reporters digital cameras. Point. Click. Shoot. Simple.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Sounds like some of the Star-Telegram survivors are planning a sick-out Friday.

To quote Otter:

I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

Hey!

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/2356170/ (fixed)

 

[micke77]

another email from my FWST friend.
he says the columnists/beat writers who appear safe are Gil LeBreton, Jim Reeves, Ray Buck, Randy Galloway, Jennifer Floyd Engel (whose husband Max is Cowboys' beat writer and I believe at the DMS?), David Thomas and Clarence Hill, Jr.
has galloway always been at FWST?

 

[lone star scribe]

Jennifer Floyd Engel's husband Mac is the Cowboys beat writer at the S-T.

Galloway used to be at Dallas, saw the error of his ways, and joined the Star-Telegram about 8 years ago or so.

 

[clutchcargo]

another email from my FWST friend.
he says the columnists/beat writers who appear safe are Gil LeBreton, Jim Reeves, Ray Buck, Randy Galloway, Jennifer Floyd Engel (whose husband Max is Cowboys' beat writer and I believe at the DMS?), David Thomas and Clarence Hill, Jr.
has galloway always been at FWST?

Galloway was at DMN a bunch of years before going to FWST something like 8-10 years ago, not sure, because long after I left there.

T.R. Sullivan has been at mlb.com a few years.

Leb and Revo probably have at least 60 years there between them.

When y'all were talking husband and wife, I had another couple there in mind. Those of you in the know probably know who I"m talking about, although I don't believe either one still actually in sports. Never made the connection about the Engels because I don't know either.

Man, layoffs AND pay reductions AND furloughs later this year. That is brutal, serious stuff.

It stinks. My thoughts are with ALL of you out there.