Matt Davies’ EC Position Revived

Matt Davies, who made headlines a couple of weeks ago when he declared himself among those whose positions were eliminated during cost-cutting maneuvers for the Gannett paper the Journal News in White Plains, New York, will keep his job after all. According to published reports, the job will be shifted a bit to include some work for Gannett's Content One platform. The paper's publisher Mike Fisch told E&P that Davies will do the same amount of work and that his salary would come from a "blend of compensation," refusing to answer if this would chance the overall level of expected compensation.

Still, Davies sounds pleased and rightly. This is good news because as a recent Pulitzer winner, as one of the most respected cartoonists both under the Gannett umbrella, and as one of the highest profile cartoonists working in a non big-name newspaper, Davies' departure came across as a particularly ugly, depressing blow for the profession in harsh times. That there was no work for him through Content One -- a mechanism similar to the one through which David Horsey's position had been sustained when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went on-line -- seemed additionally dire. This would seem a big, positive news story with which to start the Fall.
 
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