We Were Print

Starting January 1, 2009, Tribune’s Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel will be printing Cox’s Palm Beach Post.
Also as of January 1, approximately 300 employess from the Post’s production department will be out of work.
No word as to what that means for the Post’s printing press, other production equipment or the building in which all that stuff lives.

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Was told that pension packets to those who took “early” or regular retirement were mailed from The Post this week.
Watch your mailboxes!

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Looks like soon there will be one Mother paper in S.Fla. and all the papers that “were” will be bureaus to it. A lot of freelancing going on.
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 [...]

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The Post no longer has to distract the fire marshall when he makes his annual inspection and starts down the hallway containing Food Editor (oops, FORMER food editor) Jan Norris’s office.
After sticking around long after all the other VSPs left on August 12 to get down to somewhere around 1997’s clips (and a package of [...]

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From HR: If you’ve got or set up direct deposit, all of your checks will be deposited into your account.
If not, you must physically go to the front desk and pick up your checks, including lump-sum payout if you’re retiring.
Checks are issued on Thursdays.

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