Thursday, April 09, 2009

Asheville: Dismissed editor said seeking Ivey files

Ousted Asheville Citizen-Times Executive Editor Susan Ihne (left) is pressing her $15 million wrongful discharge suit against Gannett, according to a new court motion cited by North Carolina's Ashvegas blog. The editor's lawyers list questions they want answered, plus other basic information for her age and sex discrimination case filed nearly four months ago. Ihne, 53, wants access to lots of personnel files, including that of powerful Denise Ivey, the former regional publisher at The Courier-Journal; Ivey was deposed in a newspaper division management shake-up last June.
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/09/2009 12:23 PM

    Hope your lawyer's working on a contingency basis.

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  2. Anonymous4/09/2009 1:45 PM

    Hope she wins. That would be such a victory for older workers everywhere.

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  3. Anonymous4/09/2009 3:26 PM

    I think the gender case is just as strong as the age case. BTW - how old is she?
    Hope lots of Al's friends step forward with friends of the court briefs, if those are true.
    Let's get her back.

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  4. Shirley in Texas4/09/2009 3:37 PM

    What is the old saying about a woman scorned?

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  5. Anonymous4/09/2009 4:09 PM

    Any enemy of Gannett Corp is a friend of mine!

    Hope she wins BIG!

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  6. Anonymous4/09/2009 4:28 PM

    butch

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  7. Anonymous4/09/2009 11:53 PM

    I think Ihne is about 55.

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  8. Anonymous4/10/2009 6:27 AM

    I'm surprised the lawyers didn't ask about the IT director. I think she's over 40, the only breadwinner in her family, and Gannett let her go last summer with the rest of the OC and then hired her back at a much reduced salary and she did the same job. She was desperate to work. Something is wrong with the way they handled that.

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  9. Anonymous4/10/2009 11:07 AM

    Those Gannettoids did not know who they were messing with when they fired Ihne. She is fierce!

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  10. Anonymous4/10/2009 1:02 PM

    I understand the controller at the ACT is relocating to Reno. Any more on this?

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  11. Anonymous4/10/2009 1:55 PM

    Go Girl!

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  12. Anonymous4/10/2009 2:11 PM

    I hope also that she wins the case. This company needs a wake-up call bad.

    You go, girl! Show them who's in charge! LOL

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  13. Anonymous2/19/2010 6:19 PM

    I'm in the same boat as most of my fellow Gannett employees. I worked for the company for many years only to be kicked to the curb and I had to go back due to the lack of work only to be rehired in a new department and position at much,much lower pay rate.

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