Mears had previously freelanced, making a living writing about Miami for the national sections of other big dailies, such as The Boston Globe. “At this point in my life, maximizing my income is not a priority,” she says. Her partner had died the previous year, and the time leading to her death had been difficult. She knew she would be taking a financial hit-and when the housing crisis reached Florida soon afterward, she lost her home-but she decided to take a step back and stop worrying about her finances. Mears doesn’t remember the exact buyout figure, but she says it was between $20,000 and $25,000, which she thought would cover her expenses for about six months. “I don’t think we had a sense how bad it was going to get, how quickly.”
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“That was part of the reason I decided to take the buyout,” she says. Even if she stayed and moved to another section, she thought, the job would become something different, with less of the kind of autonomy she’d enjoyed.
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It seemed like the local, inside sections would be the first to go, and indeed, the section no longer exists. Her job was editing the home section, but she didn’t see how it would survive as cost-cutting hit the paper. Teresa Mears made a similar calculation when she decided to leave The Miami Herald in 2008. He had turned a corner and decided his time had come. “There was no guarantee that I wasn’t going to get cut loose a year or two later,” he says. Corbett was one of about 40 employees invited to take a buyout in that round around half took it. “I figured, I can find something after that much time,” he says. The deadline to accept was in October, and with Corbett’s years of service, he calculated the money would last him through mid-June 2016: about six months. And the 2015 buyout offer was more generous than previous ones. He was 60, covering City Hall in Glendale, Arizona. “I felt, constantly, one of these days my number is going to come up,” he says. He passed these up a few times, but his confidence in his job security waned. Then, the company that owned his paper, Gannett, began targeting certain positions, including his as a reporter in a suburban bureau, for buyout offers. When he covered real estate for the paper in 20, he thought, “I’m glad I’m not in real estate.” Even as the newsroom began shedding staff through what seemed like yearly buyouts and layoffs, he thought he would make it until 2020, when he’d be ready to retire. He admits to being naive about the state of the industry for a long time. With two grown kids in the area, he didn’t want to move, and there were no other comparable outlets nearby. You meet great people, have an impact on your community, and work with really fun people.” The Republic was, and still is, a dominant regional paper, and Corbett had planned to end his career there. “You get in everybody’s business, learn a hell of a lot. “There are so many different things you get to do,” he says. After working at weeklies around Arizona for seven years, he worked 23 more at The Arizona Republic. By publishing this material, the user expressly agrees to indemnify and to hold Splash harmless from any claims, demands, or causes of action arising out of or connected in any way with user's publication of the material.Peter Corbett loved journalism.
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