Joanna Connors, first hired by the paper in 1983, who has served as a feature writer, book and film critic. Her series on sexual assault: “Beyond Rape: A Survivor’s Journey” became the basis for her recent book, I Will Find You.
Debbi Snook, first hired in 1983, who has for 20 years written reviews on the food team. She has also written a number of marquee special reports, including a piece in 2012 called “Ohio’s Trail of Tears” about how Native Americans were forced out of Ohio.
Michael Sangiacomo, first hired in 1989, who has covered a broad range of topics for the paper and has written recently with compassion and depth about the U.S. border, including a standalone special section in February.
Dennis Manoloff, first hired in 1990, who has covered multiple beats on the sports desk, including collegiate athletics and golf.
Allison Dolin Carey, first hired in 1993, who has been for several years the heart and soul of the popular weekly Fashion Flash feature.
Janet Cho, first hired in 1999, who has been a premier reporter on the business desk for years.
Chuck Crow, veteran photographer.
Tom Feran, 37-year-veteran reporter. Feran literally reported on the PD layoffs after he’d been laid off, reportedly among those who volunteered.
Elton Alexander, longtime collegiate athletics reporter, who’s been working his butt off covering the NCAA tourney, and who signed off Tuesday with a Kenny Loggins jam.
We’ll update as we learn more.
The News Guild announced Monday that at least some of the 14 journalists volunteered to be laid off in order to preserve jobs for their colleagues and said that one additional reporter would depart later in April. Today’s newsroom layoffs are in addition to 29 production jobs (2o of which were union positions) that will soon be outsourced, which means a net loss, for the Guild, of 35 members.
“[Advance Publications] will tell you this shedding of jobs is to save money while continuing to serve the region in an ever-changing media landscape,” the Guild wrote. “Here are the facts: Two decades ago, the paper had a staff of 340 journalists to cover Northeast Ohio. Soon, there will be 32. The damage isn’t just the loss of jobs. It’s the loss of information vital to the life of the city.”
The Guild noted that the newspaper lost more than 475 years of institutional knowledge in a single day.
On Friday, the Guild ratified a contract that extends to February, 2021, and provides an option for health care benefits to those who have been laid off while eliminating required furlough days for union workers.
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This article appears in Mar 27 – Apr 2, 2019.
Feel bad for Dennis.
Frightening that people dont understand that when you lose your paper, you lose checks and balances on the powerful in your community. Scene, you are our only hope inholding the powerful accountable.
All the spam here has been reported. Go to hell.
Anyone cheering this news is a douchebag. These are our friends, neighbors, unsung heroes of the media world. Debbi Snook is the wife of a man I know, Dennis Manoloff was a great writer with great integrity, and Chuck Crow has singlehandedly brought Cleveland, as well as the world, visual images of our pains and pleasures as Northeast Ohioans. Media on your phone or iPad is nice, but theres something to be said about reading the paper on the train, in the break room, or, yes, the porcelain throne. Just one more sign of the apocalypse-to-come. May all these folks land on their feet and make others lives as enriched as they were able to make ours as appreciative readers of the physical newspaper. To the moron who led off the comments cheering, may you never have the rug pulled from under your probably-barely-employable feet, lest some other half-wit cheer YOUR downfall.
Well, maybe now we wont be having anymore editorials that urge voters to vote yes for every single tax levy and tax increase on the ballot at every election cycle!!!
And, not to mention the continual political endorsements for all of these democratic thieves that are in office year after year after year!!!
This is how sick some in our country have become. People lose their jobs, and we have fellow citizens cheering about it! Whether you supported tax increases or opposed them, whether you are a Republican or Democrat, you need to understand the newspaper reports items. Has there been editorial slants? Sure, every news outlet has a stance. They all stump for a cause. But big boys and girls know the difference between editorials and news. How you can cheer the demise of a once-great paper and the unemployment of people in your community shows just how degraded your civic sense has become. Next time you think about posting such negative and destructively stupid opinions — don’t.
I think many people who comment negatively on this have grounds to stand on. Journalism did this to itself. It was a trusted institution that undeniably shaped this country. It is now a mere shell of itself, not because of economics, but because of the product. Media bias has never been stronger, the PD and others doubled down on their stance and they lost. If you find a recent copy of the PD, circle all the stories from the Washington Post and NY Times and then ponder the PD’s demise. Think of all the stories that could have been written about Cleveland and City Hall. Google Frank Jackson and the first story about ‘your honor’ is on the second page…from The Scene. Bam.
just imagine if they’d ever gone on strike once in the last 20 years.
oh well.
Cleveland: Home of The Best Damn Band In The Land (the Cleveland Orchestra) and one of the finest art museums in the country, and at the same time one of the poorest and fastest-shrinking cities in America.
An incredibly schizophrenic place. Now add to this mix the biggest city in the country without a daily newspaper.
Nobody will ever know about the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs, the good and the bad and the downright ugly…of which there is more and more every day. A city populated by pigs and sheeple, where stupidity is the norm and where ignorance is bliss. And where will all the moronic wingnuts go to spew and rant and hate when the PD pulls the plug on their online comments board? HERE?
Thanks a lot, all you texting and tweeting twats!
This is horrible news. My heart breaks for these very talented and well respected journalists and photographers. Any idiot that cheers this news should take a look at other countries where the press is stifled and the government has free reign to do whatever it wants to its citizens. What have we become!
Is it money? Is it politics? Is it that news-seekers go on-line and seek out news they want to hear whether it’s vetted or not, true or not, fake or not? Worst decision ever to pare our once amazing Plain Dealer down to a rag with low-paid interns and reporter wannabes. So disgusted. Freedom of the press means nothing is there is no press. Think hard before you applaud losing so much talent, and our much-needed checks and balances these wonderful people brought to us.