Industry Colleagues Establish Fund to Help Times-Picayune Staffers
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A letter from "Friends of the Times-Picayune":
Friends,
As many as half of New Orleans Times-Picayune staffers - from senior editors to receptionists and printers - and their families apparently lost their homes in the horrible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They lost everything.
Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the paper, has extended salaries for a period of time and offered other benefits, whether or not employees can make it to work. Heroically, the paper continues to publish on the Web and now in print.
But what our friends are facing is staggering, unimaginable.
Please help by contributing whatever money you can. Please note, that because we had to set up this fund in a hurry, contributions are not yet tax deductible. You can send money via electronic transfer from your bank or by check to:
"Friends of the Times-Picayune"
With checks payable to Sterling Bank
Account #151027625
Mail to:
Sterling Bank
Bayou Bend Office
5757 Memorial Drive
Houston, Texas 77007-8000
On their behalf - many thanks,
Susan Feeney, Washington
Nan Varoga, Houston
Bridget O’Brian, New York