There’s another departure at the Daily News, but this time it’s voluntary.
Mary Pat Thibodeau, a photographer who had jumped to the paper from Life & Style a year and a half ago, apparently quit and jumped back to Life & Style this week.
Thibodeau said she had survived the cuts, which sources said hit nine others in the photo department, but decided to return to an employer closer to her New Jersey home.
“We are delighted to have her back,” said a Bauer spokesperson.
The cutbacks two weeks earlier claimed 24 people, including Pulitzer Prize winner Heidi Evans and photographer David Handschuh, who survived being buried in rubble while photographing the 9/11 terror attacks for the paper.