I was very disappointed to hear tonight that my friend Doug MacGregor was laid off from the Fort Myers News-Press last week as parent company Gannett cut 700 jobs (that's Doug on the right - I hope he doesn't mind I lifted the photo from his website).I think it's safe to say that Doug, who had been the paper's cartoonist since 1988, was most high-profile person at the paper when I worked there, and that was 12-plus years ago (1990-98).
Meanwhile, I just found a story that the Tucson Weekly did last May about the 65 people let go when my second newspaper, the Tucson Citizen, folded "among the 16,500-plus journalists laid off nationwide since January 2009."
How many had found journalism jobs? Five.
Steve Rivera, our outstanding UA men's basketball writer for 19 years, spent six months unemployed "before becoming an assistant manager at Rillito Nursery and Garden Center, having been trained by the company in all things desert gardening."
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/where-are-they-now/Content?oid=1972991
Good luck guys, and everyone else.
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