NORTHAMPTON Eight full-time employees of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, including Editor-in-Chief Brooke Hauser, are being laid off or taking voluntary buyouts due to the continued economic impact COVID-19 is having on the newspaper.“We are moving.
Moran: It’s been a pleasure
MIKE MORAN
Published: 12/31/2020 5:30:40 PM
I won’t bury the lede on this one as of New Year’s Day I will no longer be working for the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
As hard as that was to write, it was equally as hard of a decision to make. When I graduated from college in 2002 I found a job at 115 Conz St. That job turned into a home over the past 18-plus years, and when you find a home it’s hard to leave, regardless of the circumstances.
But the past year hasn’t been easy and leaving became that little thought that never quite went away. Up until two weeks ago, this wasn’t the case. Staff writer Kyle Grabowski and I were making plans for UMass coverage and preparing for the start of the winter high school season. Like everything during the pandemic though, situations change quickly, and this was no exception. The newspaper needed to make changes so I took the offer on the table.
Daily Hampshire Gazette editor âeliminatedâ six months after significant company layoffs
By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:10 p.m.
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The Daily Hampshire Gazette buildingMark Chiarelli
The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Western Massachusetts has seen a shift at the top of its masthead after editor-in-chief Brooke Hauser tweeted that she had been laid off Tuesday morning.
âAnd.I was just told my job was âeliminated,ââ she wrote. âI love my staff, I love this paper, and I love this community. What a shame.â
Tuesdayâs announcement marked the latest round of cuts at the Northampton-based Gazette, one of the countryâs oldest newspapers. A total of eight newsroom employees were affected: longtime sports editor Mike Moran and two others accepted buyouts, and four people were laid off alongside Hauser. As with so many news organizations nationwide, the Gazette has faced financial struggles as prin
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On Tuesday, Daily Hampshire Gazette Editor-In-Chief Brooke Hauser announced that she had lost her job. Hauser took the position at the 234 year-old publication – the longest running daily newspaper in Massachusetts – in the summer of 2018. In a statement, publisher Michael Moses of Newspapers of New England said Hauser will be replaced by Joan Livingston of the Greenfield Recorder. NNE continues to lay off employees and sell holdings. Hauser spoke with WAMC about her time at the Gazette as she cleaned out her office in Northampton Tuesday.
HAUSER: It is the community. I mean, not the entire community, because not everybody reads it, not everybody writes for it and engages with it. But, you know, I was Arts and Culture editor before being the editor-in-chief here, and I come from a long history of journalism in all different fields- you know, magazine, books, newspapers. But you know, I live here, I live in this community, and when I open the Gazette, because I read it ev
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