By Pim Van Hemmen
© 2009 News Photographer magazine

NEWARK, NJ (January 21, 2009) – Sometimes life tells you to move.

July 31, 2008, was one of those days for me.

In a hastily called morning meeting that day, Star-Ledger publisher George Arwady announced that 200 non-union employees would have to take voluntary buy-outs. If that demand and concessions from two remaining unions were not met, he said the newspaper would be sold.

I stood back and watched from the perimeter. As I looked around the room some people stared ahead vacantly and many looked downright shocked. A few started crying.

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