

Wave of buyouts hits sports departments
What’s the proper response when a friend and former colleague announces that he is “taking the buyout” from his newspaper? Congratulations or condolences? Many in the sports world have been asking that question as a wave of buyouts swept through newsrooms across the country. Longtime friends and former colleagues are walking away – sometimes voluntary, sometimes not - from jobs that they had performed admirably for decades. The sign of the (Los Angeles) Times is a retirement