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No more pet column? Maybe The Strangler should start running one.

Posted by Fnarf | April 18, 2008 12:12 PM
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"The way this process was set up, any job for which we accept an EOI simply vaporizes."

Can someone clarify this? Because it sounds like, not only will the employee not be replaced, but the news or editorial function they performed will vanish as well. Can that be right? Because if so, it looks like the Art & Entertainment section, represented here by the departures of Bargeen, Davila, and Scanlon, is going to take a pretty big hit - no more classical & contemporary music, or TV/Radio coverage?

That can't possible be correct, can it?

Posted by COMTE | April 18, 2008 12:32 PM
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Comte,

Freelancers, of which will not be paid benefits and available at a much cheaper rate then full-time staffers, will provide the bulk of the coverage.

Posted by FYI | April 18, 2008 12:39 PM
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Next thing you know they'll kill the Obituaries and the Sports pages.

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 18, 2008 12:53 PM
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

wow, changes, how very boring

Posted by Jack | April 18, 2008 1:21 PM
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The Seattle Times has a Pet Writer? Now that's dead wood.

Posted by Sumbitter | April 18, 2008 2:04 PM
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Many articles are already syndicated from NY Times, especially over the last few months. nytimes.com has them online, often a couple days before ST.

Posted by Troy | April 18, 2008 2:48 PM
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Expect to see a lot more of this:

Jonathan Zwickel, Special to the Seattle Times.

Posted by Hey! | April 18, 2008 2:51 PM
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A pet writer?! Just a thought: Shouldn't we focus our journalistic efforts on readers with, say, opposable thumbs?

Posted by Wu-huh?! | April 18, 2008 3:14 PM
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@7 and syndicated from others as well. And that has finally driven me to give up my subscription to the Seattle Times. I'll miss the comics in a compact format, but otherwise the rest of the content I can now get online and often sooner than it appears in the paper on my doorstep.

Posted by PopTart | April 18, 2008 3:24 PM
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The info on the titles you have isn't really current. The Times hasn't had a "pet writer" for more than 8 years. He's a copy editor who occasionally writes stories about pets.

Posted by Biff | April 18, 2008 3:27 PM
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I still miss the Classical Music Elite Breed Pet Writer they used to have way back when. Especially when he wrote the Pet Obituaries of Famous Local Composers - that was hard-hitting journalism at it's finest ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 18, 2008 3:31 PM
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This should make more room in the newspaper for original, Pulitzer-caliber colums like the glorious "Girl Around Town." My Sundays would not be complete without that advertorial.

Posted by ed | April 19, 2008 4:18 PM
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Barf - I don't consider my career "largely ahead" of me. I consider myself smart for getting the hell out of that place while they still have a sheckel to throw in my direction. Some of the volunteers are in their 30s and 40s. He knows that.

Posted by Took it | April 24, 2008 9:04 PM

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