Coinciding with final month’s exit of WTOP Washington, DC (103.5) Director of Content material Integration and Operations Craig Schwalb, Hubbard provided contract buyouts for all full-time non-managerial employees on the station who labored within the newsroom or inside web site improvement.
On Monday (Nov. 14), VP/GM Joel Oxley introduced that eight staff have agreed to the supply and can exit on the finish of the yr.
Those that can be taking the Voluntary Separation Program embody Morning Anchor Bruce Alan; Noon Anchor Debra Feinstein; Weekend/fill-in Anchor Sarah Jacobs; Senior Sports activities Director Dave Johnson; Morning Anchor Joan Jones; Senior Digital Editor Colleen Kelleher; Reporter Kristi King; and Digital Editor Rick Massimo.
“It’s with essentially the most combined feelings I’ve had in my time right here that I’m letting the next persons are taking the Voluntary Separation Program supply,” Oxley wrote in a memo to employees. “I’m very completely happy for all of them that it is a good factor of their lives, however will miss all of them each personally and professionally. I can’t start to thank all of them sufficient for his or her large contributions. They’ve been a bedrock of our success at WTOP. Thanks once more to this complete group for making TOP such an ideal information product. They may all be working with us till the tip of December.”