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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
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.
