Laura Berman
For Detroit News readers, it's a big loss.
More than a dozen seasoned veterans -- columnists, reporters, editors and photographers -- are leaving the paper. They're taking "incentivized retirement" buyouts.
Among those leaving: columnist Laura Berman, whose final day is Thursday. She'll work on a book project "about a tipping point in Detroit's revival," she tells Deadline Detroit, and also will be "staying open to new opportunities ahead."
On Facebook, Berman posts:
While I was planning a brand-building exit campaign, word seems to have leaked out that I am leaving the News this week, along with 13 friends and colleagues here.
I do so with incredible memories from the post-Front Page days to the Absence of Malice days to our current feisty, keep-it-going era..
So many newsroom characters and capers, and the privilege of stepping into the lives of others. Highlight: the time Hugh McDiarmid's eponymous father, Gerald Volgenau and I chased an enormous bullfrog through the New York Hilton lobby.
Journalism has changed -- but it still attracts a singular crowd who love words, the human comedy, and the adrenaline of chasing a story. Please stay in touch, friends.
