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Don Terry is another member of the class of 20 editorial employees that the Tribune sent packing on February 13. And like Chandler, Terry is a Lisagor finalist. His category is best feature story, and his entry is a story he wrote last year for the Tribune Magazine — which is now on such thin ice at the Tribune that some weeks, like last week, it doesn’t appear.
When we were talking, Chandler raised an interesting question only time can answer: This is journalism’s awards season, when work done in 2008 is honored. How many winners will in the meantime have been laid off from the newspapers they did the work for?
On this blog several days ago a presumably well-meaning agitator declared that the Tribune staff, its putative owners, should rise up, assert their authority, and tell editor Gerould Kern where to get off. “A mass, nonviolent uprising could work,” argued “at.tribune.” “I mean, what’s Kern going to do if the owner/staff tells him to get lost? Hang around and run the risk that there’s no Tribune the next day?”
