SF Bay Guardian: Former Journos Moving to Dark Side of Media Relations

Where do all of the journalists go if they get laid off? PR, of course. San Francisco has been one of the hardest hit cities, with big layoffs at the San Franisco Chronicle gaining headlines earlier this year.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s G.W. Schulz lists some of the big moves:

Chronicle City Hall reporter Charlie Goodyear is now working for the high-powered SF flack firm Singer Associates.

Former Chronicle reporter from the paper’s Sacramento bureau, Lynda Gledhill, is now a spokesperson for State Senate.

San Jose Mercury News capitol reporter, Kate Folmar, is working for the press office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Chris Lopez, an editor of the Contra Costa Times who was laid off by parent company MediaNews Group last year, took a job as a communications director for the Denver host committee of the Democratic Party’s 2008 convention.

Paul Feist, formerly the Sacramento bureau chief for the San Francisco Chronicle, was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this year to serve as a communications secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.

Tom Honig, who recently departed as the longtime editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, accepted a job with Armanasco Public Relations, an affiliate of Hill and Knowlton, which represents such illustrious clients as McDonald’s, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and Starbucks.

Read the full article here. The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club gives their take here.

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