Denver Post cuts five newsroom workers

Rocky Mountain News

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

The Denver Post cut five newsroom employees Monday, on top of 16 journalists who signed up for the paper's voluntary separation plan.

The five employees, whose last day will be Friday:

Jim Spencer, a metro columnist; Todd Engdahl, the Sunday Perspective editor; Regina Avila, a news librarian; Kay Jarvis, deputy managing editor/operations; and Carla Kimbrough- Robinson, associate editor for staff development.

"All have contributed much to this paper, and we will miss them," Post Editor Greg Moore said in an e-mail to staff.

The Post had been seeking 37 people to take the buyout plan, so the cuts will likely continue.

"In coming days, we will be reviewing remaining staffing, the budget and the newsroom reorganization," Moore told workers in the memo. "It is clear that we will be changing how we do business."

• May 13, 2008

  4:59 p.m.

  Suggest removal

  papajim writes:

  My plea for humanity

  President's, as seems reasonable, are concerned how
  history will perceive their tenure in office. From my
  perspective here is an idea that would drastically
  improve the current President's mark on history.

  It has been over 10 days since the Cyclone hit
  Burma (Myanmar). Tens of thousands have died, and the
  political climate has prevented all but a trickle of
  immediate relief. The Myanmar's military
  regime has done more to prevent assistance than to aid
  the more than 2 million people in need.
  Numbers of this size demand a global humanitarian
  relief effort.

  Rightfully so, government officials and relief
  agencies from around the world have been very critical
  of the lack of concern and cooperation for global
  relief efforts from the Myanmar junta. Daily the
  world is now seeing how despicable it is. The Burmese
  have had to endure this for decades.

  For a brief time, the UN talked of dropping aid
  shipments by air to the hundreds of thousands that are
  in need and cut off either physically, or politically,
  from the rest of the world- with or with out
  the blessings of the Myanmar regime. The idea was
  quickly quashed by the UN, with China voicing one of the strongest objections.

  Due to the lack of food and fresh water for hundreds of
  thousands for over 10 days, the death toll is now rising
  exponentially. Disease is also running
  rampant.

  Carpe Diem, President Bush! You have already established that you will invade a country without the blessings of the United Nations. I implore you to do it again TODAY!!! Not with arms and munitions, but
  with open arms. Let this be the largest humanitarian invasion in world history. Start dropping basic
  necessities that the people need to survive. A person
  in your position will always be criticized, but by taking positive action the people of Myanmar; the world, and history will applaud you.

  This is my plea for humanity.

  Jim Rohrssen

  I just recently returned from a 20 day trip to Burma,
  seeing first hand the effects that decades of this
  horrendous military regime has had on the people. Now
  the whole world knows of their lack of humanity...

  Jim Rohrssen

  Lopez Island, WA
  98261