A Grim Halloween for The Wall Street Journal

The deadline to apply for a voluntary buyout offer announced today by EIC Gerard Baker is Oct. 31.

HalloweenNewsieCostumeIn a memo to Wall Street Journal staff, editor in chief Gerard Baker outlines that the deadline to apply for a 2016 voluntary-severance-benefit buyout package is 11:59 p.m. ET Oct. 31. E.g., the same day people around the world honor a costume tradition rooted in a bygone desire to dress up so as to be mistaken by returning ghosts for a fellow spirit.

The death knell for this print newspaper Gallows’ Eve is voluntarysep@dowjones.com. Baker announced that the buyout offer is open to news employees worldwide, on both the management and non-management sides.

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