Selected Jobs of Former Colleagues

A request has been made for information about former DMN staff members who left the paper as the result of either the 2006 buyout or 2004 layoff. A complete listing would be time-consuming and damn near impossible. But here's a sample, just to give a flavor of the variety of employment people have found:
1) Former TV writer Ed Bark, as many undoubtedly know, runs the well-regarded and oft-cited blog site, unclebarky.com
2) Former books writer Jerome Weeks is an arts reporter for KERA-FM. He works alongside another DMN alum, former music editor Anne Bothwell.
3) Former Metro reporter and raconteur Tim J. Wyatt is the official spokesman for Collin County government in McKinney.
4) Former Metro Deputy Managing Editor Dwayne Bray heads the investigative unit of ESPN in Bristol, Conn. He recently hired former Metro reporter Paula Lavigne to do computer assisted reporting for his unit.
5) Dotty Griffith, the longtime DMN restaurant critic, recently joined the American Civil Liberties Union in Austin as director of public education. She is working for Terri Burke, a former AME over the feature sections at the DMN.
6) Pete Slover, former Metro and Austin bureau reporter, is special counsel to State Comptroller Susan Combs and director of the agency's criminal investigations unit.
7) Former Metro reporter Bill Lodge recently started a job as federal courts reporter for The Advocate in Baton Rouge. He had previously worked as a journalism professor and advisor to the student newspaper at North Lake College in Irving.
8) Former Lifestyles reporter Michael Precker, as has been well-reported, is the day manager and spokesman for The Lodge, a gentleman's club in Dallas.
9) Mike Peters, whose last DMN job was as an assistant foreign editor, just started as editor of First Alaskans, a magazine for a chain of newspapers in Alaska. He is based in Anchorage.
10) Former Metro and Today columnist Larry Powell runs http://www.readlarrypowell.com/ , a blog about pet matters. He also writes a column for Urban Animal magazine. (This gratuitous reference will no doubt force Mr. Powell to surface and toss barbed insults.)
11) Former Books Editor Charles Ealy is an assistant business editor with the Austin American-Statesman. And, yes, he made it the Cannes Film Festival again this year.
12) Kathy Lewis, former deputy Washington bureau chief, is chief spokesperson for the American Petroleum Institute. Working with Kathy is fellow D.C. bureau alum, Robert Dodge.
13) Allen Pusey, longtime Dallas and D.C. bureau reporter, is managing editor of the American Bar Association Journal in Chicago.
14) Michael Weiss, former assistant national editor, assistant state editor and assistant business editor for the DMN , is an editor with Bloomberg News in New York.
15) Arnold Hamilton, former Oklahoma bureau reporter, is the editor and co-owner of the Oklahoma Observer, a venerable political weekly newspaper in Oklahoma City.
16) Esther Wu, former Metro columnist, is director of community relations for the Trammel and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art.
17) Pam Maples, former Projects editor, is managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
18) Former Arts Editor Rick Holter is a supervising senior editor for the weekend version of NPR's All Things Considered in Washington. His wife, former SportsDay special projects editor Shawna Seed, has completed one novel and is writing a second.
19) Former Metro reporter Kristine Hughes recently joined former Metro reporters Tony Hartzel and Holly Becka as public involvement representatives for HNTB Corp., an architectural and engineering firm involved in building several large local highway projects.
20) Laura Beil, former medical writer, is freelancing for among others, The New York Times. She also contributes regularly to Science News, a D.C.-based magazine edited by her former DMN boss, Tom Siegfried.
21) Former Metro and Lifestyles reporter Aline McKenzie is one of several DMN Metro Desk alums who now work for UT Southwestern's news and publications office. Others include Kristen Holland Shear, LaKisha Ladson, Connie Piloto, Russell Rian, Katherine Morales and Patrick Wascovich. Business News alum Lin Lofley is also working there.
22) Former SportsDay columnist Kevin Blackistone holds the Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland. He also contributes to ESPN and AOL Sports.
23) Vernon Smith, former assistant foreign editor, has worked as a consultant to news organizations in Jordan and Mexico.
24) Former DMN photo honcho Robert Hart, whose last gig with Belo was as head of online content for Belo Interactive, is director of operations for Noofangle Media, a provider of web-based content for radio and TV stations co-founded by DMN-ex Tom Kessler.
25) G. Robert Hillman, former editor and reporter in the D.C. bureau, is an editor with Politico.com, a well-regarded provider of political content in Washington.

And there are so many more.