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BOSTON Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists including a reporter who helped break the clergy-sex abuse scandal are among 24 people The Boston Globe is cutting from its newsroom staff through a buyout program aimed at avoiding layoffs.
The buyouts, which staffers had to apply for, were announced Wednesday. The departures will occur over the next few months.
"It is always difficult to say goodbye to co-workers and friends," Globe Editor Martin Baron wrote in a memo to staff. "Wonderful people who have dedicated themselves so fully to the success of the Globe will no longer be working with us side by side."
Columnist Eileen McNamara and investigative reporter Stephen Kurkjian are among the staff members to accept the buyouts.
McNamara, 54, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She said she will teach journalism at Brandeis University.
Kurkjian, 63, was a founding member of the Globe's Spotlight Team investigative unit and shared in three Pulitzers. Two came for local investigative reporting: in 1972 for exposing political corruption in Somerville and in 1980 for documenting the high costs and poor service at the region's transportation agency. The third came in 2003 for public service for uncovering the Roman Catholic church's clergy sex abuse scandal.
Kurkjian said he will continue to pursue writing projects.
The reductions were part of a broader buyout program aimed at cutting 125 jobs at the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, both owned by The New York Times Co.
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