Washington Post’s Mike Keegan to take a buyout
Mike Keegan, assistant managing editor for news art of The Washington Post, is taking a buyout, reports the SND/Update blog.
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SND’s Matt Mansfield — himself an AME who took a buyout recently from The San Jose Mercury News — broke the news to the visual journalism community Monday by pointing out Keegan’s departure was:
Quietly mentioned in the sixth paragraph of the story on the buyouts at The Washington Post.
Read Mansfield’s post here. Read the Post article from last Friday here. Read a column by the Post’s media columnist, Howard Kurtz, about the emotional impact of the mass buyouts here.
Just four months ago, Mike and his staff landed a big, big fish in J. Ford Huffman who — you guessed it — had taken a buyout from USA Today.
Best wishes to Mr. Keegan and his staff at the Post. You’ve done a tremendous job up there.