The Palm Beach Post’s local columnist for more than 30 years, Frank Cerabino, is leaving the paper in early September, joining other key staffers in accepting a buyout that will reduce the paper’s newsroom by more than 10 percent.
The buyouts prompted by cost-cutting from the paper’s Gannett headquarters eliminate the paper’s most popular and controversial voice and cut deeply into its already reduced institutional memory.
For Cerabino, whose often satirical columns date to 1991, the offer came at an opportune time: He recently turned 70…