Two more names to add the growing list of staff leaving TheAge. Senior columnist Tony Parkinson has announced he’s leaving, robbing the increasingly left-leaning paper of its strongest conservative op-ed voice. There’s no word yet on what he intends to do.
And, this is unconfirmed, but Age Canberra Gallery reporter David Wroe is also rumoured to be heading off next year after he was passed over for one of the company’s redundancy packages.
This is what Crikey now understands to be the final list of Age staff taking redundancies – described by the paper’s house committee as ‘The Great Escape 2005’:
Paul Best
Pam Bone
Phil Burgoyne
John Criddle
Tony Duboudin
David Elias
Peter Ellingsen
Siew Ching Goh
Kathy Evans
John French
Alice Ghent
Cathy Gowdie
Charlie Happell
Tony Halliwell
Gary Hughes
Dennis Jose
Lisa Kearns
Ray Kennedy
Peter Krien
Xavier La Canna
Moira Malone O’Brien
Melissa Marino
Kathryn McNess
Claire Miller
Kylie Miller
Neil Newitt
Tom Noble
Kevin Norbury
Angela O’Connor
Campbell Patton
Paul Robinson
John Schauble
Jenny Sinclair
Paul Speelman
Wendy Tuohy
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