Don't Ask Jane--she's leaving

Food editor Jane Snow is leaving.

Managing Editor Mizell Stewart will make the announcement in his Sunday column.. If he uses a photo it will hopefully be better than this one scanned from an old Food section.

The blog guy did ask Jane about it, but she is not too prompt in answering e-mail. Jane joins a group of top bylines leaving the Beacon Journal–most of them volunteers who were not laid off. The list posted so far includes Mary Ethridge, Gloria Irwin, Debby Stock Kiefer and almost 20-year KR veteran Dave Wilson who was among those laid off..

The reorganization is still shaking down. Friday was the last day for the small day-time copy desk so there is no longer an early press run. Learning to live the night life will be Chuck Montague, Olga Reswow and Monica Thomas. On a dreary Saturday night there were only three copy editors and a slot, but Saturday nights have always been with small staffs.

Also gone is Chiffon Staebler who worked on the day-time copy desk. She was laid off and her job might have been saved by others volunteering to leave. But, as reported earlier, Chiffon is a young widow with three children which would make it tough to switch to nights. Hopefully, we will be able to report later what is happening in her life.

The job of artist Kathy Hagedorn who was the subject of one of our first posts on the layoff was saved–sort of. Kathy will move into the part-time art job held by Rick Steinhauser who will try it as a page designer.

“It is a change of position and will require retraining, but I want to stay in Northeast Ohio for now,” he says.. “My reservations are, because of the unknowns of the new responsibilities, that I may not like the job at all. I also have three kids at home that I won’t see at all because I will be primarily a night shift employee. Being the primary salary for the household, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.”