Raleigh News & Observer : Another good one, out the door…
The layoff parade is too great to ignore every day. So here’s one more item of melancholia in the newspaper trade. The Tracker received word yesterday from Raleigh News & Observer‘s Wade Rawlins that he’s signing off as of next week – the environmental reporter’s slot was among 30 newsroom jobs eliminated in the latest round of cuts. He’s been there 19 years, and in the business for 29. Less than a year ago, among his several appearances at this blogsite, The Tracker was following an adventurous story he filed from Toolik, Alaska. while on a fellowship with the Institute of Arctic Biology. Now he really is out in the cold – which he calls an opportunity to reassess. Another sample of the sturdy work he’s done for the paper and its readers is this on hemlock tree devastation and a tiny fly that might buzz to the rescue – with an update last month. The most recent of his bylines I can turn up is this tale filed last week, of layoffs and environmental hurdles for a local phosphate mine. He plans to try freelancing.
-CP
May 20th, 2009 at 2:54 am
[...] For the last month, science reporters have been conducting a meta-analysis of, well, the crumbling of science reporting: On Friday, Charlie Petit at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker mourned the loss of yet another accomplished reporter: Wade Rawlins, who the Raleigh News & Observer recently laid off. Loss of experienced science journalists at papers are dovetailing with the loss of science sections in papers—the ranks of which, according to the Columbia Journalism Review, began thinning in the 1990s—and the loss of entire papers (see: The Rocky Mountain News and, to a lesser extent, The Seattle Post-Intellingencer). [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 7:00 am
[...] For the last month, science reporters have been conducting a meta-analysis of, well, the crumbling of science reporting: On Friday, Charlie Petit at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker mourned the loss of yet another accomplished reporter: Wade Rawlins, who the Raleigh News & Observer recently laid off. Loss of experienced science journalists at papers are dovetailing with the loss of science sections in papers—the ranks of which, according to the Columbia Journalism Review, began thinning in the 1990s—and the loss of entire papers (see: The Rocky Mountain News and, to a lesser extent, The Seattle Post-Intellingencer). [...]