Detroit Free Press Travel Writer Waves Goodbye
After a ton of frequent-flier miles, Ellen Creager is taking the buyout.
As we reported last week, both of Detroit’s daily newspapers have thinned out their ranks at year’s end via buyouts. On the Free Press side, one of those opting for the print-media emergency exit is travel writer Ellen Creager, a veteran of 33 years and a travel writer since 2003.
In a fun farewell column published over the weekend, she looks back at some of her stranger and heretofore unrevealed moments as a salaried globetrotter. At one point, she punchlines an anecdote with:
I do believe that to this very day, I am the only Gannett employee ever to file a worker’s comp claim because of frostbite caused by dogsledding.
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WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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