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Former SABEW president, night biz editor among Fort Worth layoffs

Fort Worth Star-Telegram managing editor for news Rex Seline, a former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and night business editor Jim Frisinger are among the layoffs at the paper Thursday, reports Teresa Gubbins of Pegasus News.

Gubbins reports that Frisinger was part of the layoffs at the Dallas Morning News in 2004. “Layoffees were offered six weeks’ pay and three months’ worth of health insurance,” she wrote. “The newspaper has announced a meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss a restructuring.”

Seline joined the paper in 1994 as the business editor and became the ME for news in 2001. He was SABEW’s president in 2004-05. Before joining the Star-Telegram, Seline had worked at The Miami Herald, The New York Times, the Dallas Times Herald and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. He has been on the SABEW board since 1994.

Frisinger has been an adjunct faculty member in the Texas Christian University journalism department. His students have been writing the It’s a Horned Frog World blog.

At the Morning News, Frisinger had been on the editorial board.

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