McClatchy announces it’ll end wage freeze. Things looking up for The Star?

​The Kansas City Star‘s parent company McClatchy has announced it will lift a company-wide wage freeze starting this January, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.

That’s good news for the men and women working at 18th and Grand.

The company instituted a wage freeze in September 2008.

According to a memo released by Chief Executive Gary Pruitt, pay raises will start again on a varied timetable depending on the individual circumstances of each paper.

If this is the first sign of turnaround, it’s a well-deserved ray of light for KC’s daily.

In the last two years, the people working at the Star have survived four rounds of layoffs and a publisher who compares them to roadkill and workers trapped in a mine shaft.