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The latest round of layoffs at the Arizona Republic includes numerous editors and photographers, sources in the know tell New Times.
Here’s a partial list of those who got the axe, according to the latest scuttlebutt. (Please let us know if anything is incorrect!):
Jeff Dozbaba news operations editor
Dan Shearer senior editor
Jim Fickess Gilbert Republic editor
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Jim Gold Scottsdale Republic editor
John Leach digital media editor
Joe Garcia community conversation editor
Jason Skoda sports reporter
Sharon Yep copy editor
Randy Reid photographer
Elizabeth Tompkins photo-video coordinator
Kate Nolan Scottsdale reporter
Dennis Godfrey copy editor
Laurie Merrill online producer
Mark Lipczynski photographer/videographer
Russell Gates East Valley photo coordinator
Craig Kurtz designer
Rose Tring News-by-you producer
Sherrie Buzby East Valley photographer/videographer
Kristina Justin content manager
Nothing but bad news in the media these days…
Our sympathies to those who lost their jobs — and to the public, as the shrinking state-paper-of-record offers its readers fewer interesting and thoroughly reported articles. — Ray Stern
UPDATE: Zonie Report names some other layoff victims: reporters Bob Golfen and John Davis (commenter below says Davis wasn’t cut), editor Karen Outland and copy editor Jason Owsley.
