Creative Loafing Journal-Constitution staffers signing the paper's severance agreement are barred from making "any disparaging or untrue statements about the company" or its employees. That's standard language in many severances, but
Ken Edelstein says the wording "raises an awkward issue for the newspaper, which regularly extols transparency as an expectation for journalists along with others involved in public life." (Does your buyout deal include that language?
Let Romenesko know -- anonymously, if you prefer. ||
UPDATE: I'm told that the Scripps papers, Poynter's St. Petersburg Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, and MediaNews' St. Paul Pioneer Press have non-disparagement clauses. No such clauses: USA Today and Washington Post.)
