Rab interviews several journalists who took the “voluntary” buyouts.

You can read it through this link.

 Those in the business – and now out of it – will recognize most of the names, and recall most of the facts in the fairly detailed article.

The news that triggers that theory was released this week: the “sharing” of editorial content among the major dailies.

Here’s the gist of the announcement to the troops from Col. Jbart:

Folks:

Next month, we will expand our story-sharing arrangements with other Florida papers to include the Sun Sentinel.

Starting Monday, Sept. 2, the three South Florida papers will begin a three-month trial of sharing breaking news copy as well as sports and cultural copy, including reviews. The Miami Herald and the Sun Sentinel also will share with each other. In addition, all three papers will step up pooling arrangements on some stories.

The trial period will begin with basic breaking news (happened in the past 24 hours) on each other¹s web sites. We may pull and run in print any breaking news stories, as can they from our web site. Enterprise, features, columns and investigative stories will not be picked up. (We¹ll probably argue from time to time about what¹s breaking news and what¹s features/enterprise, until we all get used to it.) We may also pick up excerpts of stories; examples might be regional weather stories, political candidates on the trail in all three counties…

Early next month, we¹ll discuss with our sports editors and arts editors how we can best share game and cultural news and reviews.

For more than a decade, we have shared copy with the Miami Herald. For four years, we¹ve shared copy with some Gannett papers. The Post this year also began sharing our copy statewide through AP Exchange, the AP¹s web-based delivery system. This weekend alone, we ran stories from the St. Pete Times, Miami Herald, St. Augustine Record and Port Charlotte Sun Newspapers.

Jbart