Let’s get it back to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Delaware Valley’s premier legacy newspaper is seeing a few more employees depart, which feels like Groundhog Day in these parts. They’ve been buying out workers and adding new, younger staff for what feels like an eternity now, suffering the double whammy of a global pandemic placed squarely on top of a changing media landscape.

Some new tidbits here from Jeff Blumenthal at the Philadelphia Business Journal:

Four more employees at the Philadelphia Inquirer have accepted buyout packages offered by the newspaper — the second such offer from the company since the coronavirus pandemic began in the spring.

The question now is whether the company plans to issue layoffs, as NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia Executive Director Bill Ross said it hoped 12 employees would accept the buyouts.

Employees had until Aug. 12 to accept the buyouts. Ross said there were 61 Guild members and 17 managers and other non-union employees eligible. Two Guild members from the editorial department and two non-union employees — one each in the editorial and information technology departments — accepted the packages.

It’s hard to keep track of comings and goings at the Inquirer. In the sports department, John Smallwood, Sam Donnellon, Rick O’Brien, Zach Berman, and Bob Ford all departed within the past two years. 50% of the sales staff was gutted and token conservative writer Christine Flowers was also canned. Stu Bykofsky took a buyout, then sued Inga Saffron after calling her comments at his farewell party a “sack of shit lie.” Senior Vice President Stan Wischnowski later resigned after some poor soul published an article titled Buildings Matter, Too, which caused an internal pseudo-revolt and condemnation of a lack of diversity at the newspaper.

Other than that, things are good at the Inquirer!