Vermont Newspaper Reporter Laid Off After Refusing to Reapply for Job
Source: Seven Days (Burlington, Vt.)
Like most of her colleagues at the Burlington Free Press, Lynn Monty was scheduled to interview for her own job last week. But shortly before the interview was set to take place Tuesday, Monty told a human resources executive from Freeps owner Gannett Company, Inc., that she wouldn't go through with it.
"The facts are that I opted out of the interview process and they laid me off," Monty said Monday in written responses to questions posed by Seven Days. "I loved my job, but I don't love Gannett. I will make a new way for myself that doesn't compromise my integrity."
After six years at the Free Press, she said, "Interviewing for a job I already held was degrading and demoralizing ... It compromised my integrity. And for the first time I couldn't see a future there for me."
... As the Free Press complies with a Gannett-wide mandate to trim newsroom budgets at each of its 81 local papers, 22 of its 26 editorial staffers have been forced to re-apply for their own jobs.
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