Betsy Mason left the CC Times to work for Wired.com. She starts there in August. No replacement has been named for her at the paper. The CC Times recently announced more layoffs and as many as 29 individuals have already left the newsroom
I quit, that's what happened! And just in time it seems - 40 more people were laid off from the Bay Area News Group's newsrooms in the East Bay last week. Sadly, the Contra Costa Times isn't the paper it used to be, and it seemed it was time for me to move on. Starting in August, I'll be the science editor at Wired.com. I'll still be writing, and I'm going to try to keep an eye on the lab.
I'm not sure what will happen to the lab/science beat at the newspaper. With so many people leaving, I don't know how they'll manage to fill all the holes. It may be a while before someone is watching the lab consistently again. This was one of the reasons it was a hard decision for me to leave the paper.
I'll send a note to the blog when I have a new email address.
In reporting the news truthfully as you did over the years, you served your community and your country well. Given the pressures that always emerge to protect the powerful, it must have been difficult for you to publish the unvarnished truth and survive. I always enjoyed reading your columns and found them to be perfectly correlated with my own knowledge of events at the lab.
I would like to join my colleagues in wishing you the very best in the future. May God bless and protect you always.
Betsy Mason was a great person to feed information to and did a great job of displaying what LLNS was up to. I wonder if the new editor can fill her shoes or will he be a LLNS patsy.
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Betsy Mason left the CC Times to work for Wired.com. She starts there in August. No replacement has been named for her at the paper. The CC Times recently announced more layoffs and as many as 29 individuals have already left the newsroom
I quit, that's what happened! And just in time it seems - 40 more people were laid off from the Bay Area News Group's newsrooms in the East Bay last week. Sadly, the Contra Costa Times isn't the paper it used to be, and it seemed it was time for me to move on. Starting in August, I'll be the science editor at Wired.com. I'll still be writing, and I'm going to try to keep an eye on the lab.
I'm not sure what will happen to the lab/science beat at the newspaper. With so many people leaving, I don't know how they'll manage to fill all the holes. It may be a while before someone is watching the lab consistently again. This was one of the reasons it was a hard decision for me to leave the paper.
I'll send a note to the blog when I have a new email address.
Betsy
Best wishes Betsy! You did a lot for LLNL employees, despite recent criticism!
Best of luck at your new job Betsy. The fact you posted a comments shows you have character and did care about what was going on at the Laboratory.
Keep in touch.
Glad to hear you landed on your feet, Betsy!
Betsy, thank's for your reporting in the past and good luck to you in the future. Keep your eye on LLNL, and watch your back.
Betsy,
In reporting the news truthfully as you did over the years, you served your community and your country well. Given the pressures that always emerge to protect the powerful, it must have been difficult for you to publish the unvarnished truth and survive. I always enjoyed reading your columns and found them to be perfectly correlated with my own knowledge of events at the lab.
I would like to join my colleagues in wishing you the very best in the future. May God bless and protect you always.
PS: I was laid off on May 23rd, 2008.
Don't be teary-eyed. Betsy was no Ian Hoffman.
Betsy Mason was a great person to feed information to and did a great job of displaying what LLNS was up to. I wonder if the new editor can fill her shoes or will he be a LLNS patsy.
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