Why I created this site
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 18:35 — Aaron BarnhartOne hundred and twenty people. That's a lot of people to say goodbye to all at once. On June 16, 2008, we were informed that our newspaper, and all the others owned by the McClatchy Company, would be laying off employees, 10 percent of the total company workforce in all. At the Star, that totalled about 120 people from every division.
No sooner did that announcement come out than we began hearing of colleagues who had gotten their severance envelopes. The ax fell quickly.
Paul Horsley
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 18:19 — Aaron BarnhartI'm not sure what the protocol is for writing about your colleagues who have suddenly, by involuntary attrition, become your ex-colleagues. Somebody on the business desk showed me a list she'd made of the 20 or so Kansas City Star newsroom employees that she knew who had been let go in Monday's purge. Yes, I know you have read that McClatchy, the chain that owns us, was "to cut 10 percent" of its workforce, but the future tense is actually past tense, and those who are going are, for the most part, already gone.
