Advertiser reporter (and former Star-Bulletin writer) Rick Daysog has accepted a position at The McClatchy Company’s Sacramento Bee, where he will covering “a new beat that spans air quality, energy and green technology, to be covered from a business and consumer perspective.”
According to Wikipedia, the Bee has won five Pulitzer Prizes over the years. What a great spot for Rick to land in.
And today I also noted a post on Vicki Viotti’s “The Editorial Blog” describing her trip to yesterday’s job fair. Not a lot of fun. She doesn’t mention seeing any other Advertiser staffers there. Was she the only one?
Another description of the situation at the Advertiser can be found in Wes Nakama’s “Prep Talk” blog a few days ago.
• Most Advertiser newsroom employees, including all of us in sports, applied for jobs with the Star-Advertiser on May 11 — after being handed applications and alerted to job openings on May 10.
• Several newsroom employees were called in for interviews last week, starting on May 11. Word is two people from the sports department were called in (I wasn’t one of them). Interviews supposedly will continue this week, though not necessarily for sports reporters.
• In the meantime, we will continue to publish The Advertiser sports section as planned until June 6, unless we’re told otherwise.
I’ve heard a rumor that former Star-Bulletin staff who took jobs at the Advertiser are now facing additional scrutiny if applying for open positions in the merged newsroom, with questions about why they walked away from their former and potential future employer.
That final edition of the Advertiser is just 2-1/2 weeks away.
And from the Newspaper Guild, this cheery missive to Advertiser employees:
Advertiser Guild dues info
19 May 2010
Guild dues are 1.5 percent of your gross pay per pay period. Rather than set up an auto-pay with your bank account, at this late date, it’s better to snail-mail checks to:
Hawaii Newspaper Guild/CWA
888 Mililani Street, Suite 303
Honolulu, HI 96813
And thanks for doing it. We’re doing everything we can to get our members what they deserve and should already have by now: severance pay, COBRA information, restoration of half of the 10 percent pay cut.
And so it goes.
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Good for Rick. My auntie lived almost forever in Sacramento and survived Governor Ronald Ray-gun’s tenure only bygrace of the really hard hitting journalism they did to hold Ronnie’s feet to the fire. And she was no bleeding heart liberal (as some would characterize moi). Their sister papoer — the Fresno Bee — had a similar reputation. Hope it continues, and works for Rick.
On a separate note, I am interested to see what happens with the personnel aspect of the merged paper’s coverage at the Capitol. In the best of all worlds, we would continue to have Borreca’s wizened, grizzled, curmudgeonly, cantankerous perspective alongside DePledge’s hustle to get the latest and the deepest info. I know which one I’d choose if I had to choose. Maybe Borreca can assume a Shapiro-like pot-shot-taking position while doing the classy Memminger-like thing (I wouldn’t ordinarily use that name and adjective in the same sentence) by stepping aside for the next generation.
We shall see.
From my understanding, Paula Rath, HA’s fashion correspondent, is also being let go.
Paula gave so many up-and-coming fashion designers and small business fashion retailers their big break with her articles that I am certain karma will open a prosperous door for her to walk through.
The small boutiques will miss you Paula. You have been our greatest ally through the toughest of times. We hope you know that we will be here for you during this diffcult time.
As if it isn’t obvious why people left the Bulletin for the Advertiser. Sounds like pettiness to me.
Now the former S-B folks who went to the ‘Tiser must face the new, powerful dragon down on their knees to see if maybe, MAYBE they can have a job. I don’t envy them at all, but hopefully their talent will prevail.
DePledge gets my vote as the best political reporter in Hawaii, at least as far as the mainstream media go.
Let’s hope the new owners agree.
I guess it’s always fun to repeat an unsubstantiated rumor about the Star-Bulletin rather than check out whether or not it’s true. It’s not.
Wes Nakama went to the job fair. He confirmed it in the comments below his blog.
Former Bulletin staffers went to the Advertiser for obvious reasons: better pay and security. And as a Bulletin staffer I bore them no grudge. They did what any reasonable person would do.
Businessmen do the same: buy and sell, merge and cut. Whatever is required in their own best interests.
Daysog gets my vote as far as best investigative reporter. He’s got this place down — I can’t believe he’s leaving and wish him all the best.