Don Wright Accepts Palm Beach Buyout



The editorial cartoonist Don Wright is among those listed to have accepted a buyout option from his position at the Palm Beach Post, yet another example of a position (or person holding that position) being eliminated in a massive, nationwide shrinking of staff positions in light of newspaper advertising trends and developing manpower needs.

I think this is an important story, in that my gut tells me that a kind of apathetic winnowing of jobs over the last few years caused in part by newspapers not valuing the work done by their staff cartoonists had actually been countered a bit by industry activism and a reduction in numbers that got levels down to some really core newspapers. These new staff position eliminations, on the other hand, seem to be need-to-happen cuts that could go much deeper before all is said and done.
 
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