Miami Herald Offers Buy Outs

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Full-time copy editors, photographers and columnists at the McClatchy Co.-owned Miami Herald have been offered severance packages if they opt to accept the euphemistic voluntary separation program, according to the Romanesko.com Web site.

Herald Executive Editor Mindy Marques sent a memo to qualified Herald staffers that Romanesko obtained. Herald staffers were forced to take an unpaid one-week furlough earlier this year (see "TUOL" post 1/15/13) as the paper grapples with reduced circulation and shrinking ad revenues.