Star-Telegram update

[micke77]

lone star scribe...thanks for the clearing up of the engel duo..okay, both over there....
and yes, do remember now about galloway having been over in dallas.
funny, my friend at the FWST hadn't heard a thing about evan grant departing the DMN. did that happen this week?

 

[pressboxramblings07]

Galloway was at Dallas for a long, long time before the FWST lured him away to the tune of 300 grand a year.

 

[fleaflicker]

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.

Would layoffs, pay reductions AND furloughs be the Triple Crown?

 

[micke77]

sure sounds like it.
there's a big story in today's USA Today regarding furloughs..interesting. and depressing.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Galloway was at Dallas for a long, long time before the FWST lured him away to the tune of 300 grand a year.

i'm sorry but that's way too much money

 

[micke77]

300 freakin' grand?
darn.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

That's when he signed his first deal. I believe it was for five years, $1.5 million. He's since "resigned."

A friend and former co-worker, who also photographed my wedding, was laid off last year by the FWST. Her husband took a buyout today. Worked out well for him, though. He was set to start teaching in August anyway. Still a sad day for two people who worked for newspapers for a long time and contributed a lot to every place they worked.

 

[SockPuppet]

The Galloway money came at a time when K-R actually wanted FWST to compete with DMN. DMN tried to start an Arlington paper. War. FWST fought back with preps, Galloway, hired Celeste Williams as kick-ash sports editor. From about 2001-2006, one of the best sports sections around, at the very least the equal of the DMN.

Galloway also was/is pulling in about $150,000-$200,000 a year for his radio gig. During his last contract negotiation last summer, he took a cut and asked Executive Editor Jim Witt if that would save some people. Witt said No, it wouldn't.

Galloway's hire made everybody in sports realize that management was serious. I know, sounds crazy given current state of affairs.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

He's made his presence known, and like SockPuppet said, he's making more than a half-million a year with the paper and radio gigs. Surprisingly, Jim Witt was the one who wanted to lure Galloway away.

Huge salary aside, Galloway is a helluva writer and one of the nicest guys around.

 

[SockPuppet]

That Galloway move by Jim Witt is the only thing he's done postive.

 

[tonysoprano]

Galloway is a fine human being, and I've enjoyed every second around him.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

In better days, a newsroom staff of 405 full-time equivalents, including a sports staff of 90:

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