Entire newspaper staff quits, starts new paper

Have you ever been so upset you wanted to quit your job?

Cathy Gilbert, the managing editor of a small newspaper in South Carolina, felt that way and did something about it.

She not only quit, she also took her entire staff of employees with her to start a competing paper in Manning, S.C., according to a WLTX, a TV station in Columbia. Manning is located 60 miles southeast of Columbia.

Barry Moore, owner of the weekly Manning Times, said the show will go on for the 125-year-old paper, and residents of the community of 4,000 people are helping out. He's already looking at journalists' resumes, according to the wltx.com article. Moore's former staff numbered "six or seven," he said.

"We hope for another 125 years," Moore said in the article.

The news has created a buzz in the small town. A woman who answered the phone at the police station told the AJC she has talked to Gilbert, whose paper will be called the Clarendon Citizen, and will start sending crime reports every Monday to both publications.

She said she is OK with the extra work.