18 added to our Blog Wall of Honor

As it turns out, the buyouts this year have turned out to be more devastating in a way than those of two years ago.

On September 27, 2006 we set up the "Blog Wall of Honor." It included the names and years of service for 18 members of the editorial staff who volunteered to leave often in the hope of saving someone else's job after the company announced a layoff of one-fourth of the staff.

Today we added a list from October 3, 2008 of 18 others who accepted buyouts and thus avoided layoffs announced by the company.

There are others, of course, who have lost their jobs of left since McClatchy purchased Knight Ridder and the BJ was purchased by David Black. The demise of the Knight Ridder chain was toasted by a "BJ end of the era party " on June 27,2006

Somebody needs to go back through the archives of this blog to put the whole history in some sort of chronological order.

The September, 2006 list includes 18 veterans with 291 years of service.

The October, 2008 list includes 18 veterans with 327 years of service.

The Guild roster now includes only about 70.

It is our hope that the recent "volunteers" will keep us informed about where they go and what they do. We also invite any of them to send us a "swan song" on their leaving.

Please click on the headline to see the new Blog Wall of Honor. You also might want to check out a little quiz we had on the earlier departures,.