Gannett Blog reported the planned timetable last week (linked above), so here's how this is going to work. Current staffers who want to stay on will have to re-apply and interview for their jobs this coming week at the Asbury Park Press offices in Neptune. As a show of support, all readers are encouraged to send a letter to the following address:

Asbury Park Press
3601 Highway 66, Box 1550,
Neptune, NJ 07754-1551

If you're interested, send something out over the next few days so it will arrive while the interviews are still ongoing.

There's no need to go into extensive detail; a brief note explaining how terrific Gannett NJ's current coverage of Rutgers athletics is will suffice. Please remain polite and courteous while emphasizing what a colossal loss and reduction in coverage would be.

If you are a subscriber to a Gannett NJ paper (Asbury Park Press, Home News Tribune, Courier News, Daily Record, Courier-Post, or Daily Journal), it would help to make note of that point without being curt.

I am trying to be realistic about what possibly could happen. There is clearly going to be some impact from a consolidation that costs the three affected papers nearly half of their staff. Whatever does happen, I at least want to have tried to speak up.