Fired PNI staffers sue for libel p.25
Eighteen former employees of Phoenix Newspapers Inc., publisher of the Arizona Republic, claim in a suit they were defamed by the paper's former managing editor.
The workers say they were humiliated and embarrassed, and their professional reputations were damaged by comments Steve
Knickmeyer made in a January Columbia Journalism Review article about 60 news staffers who were laid off last year when the company closed the Phoenix Gazette, the Republic's sister newspaper.
Former reporters claimed that the company had laid off its most aggressive news staffers, but Knickmeyer was quoted calling most of those fired "fat, lazy, incompetent and slow." He quit soon after the article appeared.
Knickmeyer and PNI are listed as defendants. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Knickmeyer declined to comment on the suit, but Republic executive editor Pam Johnson called the defamation claim "without merit."
After the article appeared, Johnson said Knickmeyer's remarks "did not accurately reflect the selection process used last year when we closed the Phoenix Gazette and had to let 60 staff members go." — AP
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The workers say they were humiliated and embarrassed, and their professional reputations were damaged by comments Steve
Former reporters claimed that the company had laid off its most aggressive news staffers, but Knickmeyer was quoted calling most of those fired "fat, lazy, incompetent and slow." He quit soon after the article appeared.
Knickmeyer and PNI are listed as defendants. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Knickmeyer declined to comment on the suit, but Republic executive editor Pam Johnson called the defamation claim "without merit."
After the article appeared, Johnson said Knickmeyer's remarks "did not accurately reflect the selection process used last year when we closed the Phoenix Gazette and had to let 60 staff members go." — AP
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