It is being reported by Reuters that the Los Angeles Times is planning to terminate printing operations in Orange County, CA. The closing of their Orange County printer would create around 80 layoffs. LA Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein, wrote a memo recently explaining how the paper could create “substantial savings” by condensing its printing operations into [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Journal News, the Westchester, New York newspaper owned by Gannett, has informed all 288 of its news and advertising sales employees that their jobs will be eliminated. Those affected have until the end of this week to apply for the 218 jobs the paper will keep. Overall, 20 jobs are being cut in ad sales, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Journal Communications, owner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is cutting 92 jobs at the 172-year-old paper, or 6% of the workforce. The cuts take effect in August. The cuts include 37 voluntary buyouts for newsroom staffers. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Memphis, Tennessee’s The Commercial Appeal newspaper may move its printing operations to Journal Publishing in Tupelo, Mississippi, eliminating up to 115 jobs. The printers’ and mailers’ unions and the Memphis Newspaper Guild oppose the move, doubting that money would be saved. The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee and its surrounding metropolitan area. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
a Fifteen full-time employees and thee part-timers were let go. Eleven worked in Editorial, including sports editor Bill Callen and business editor Marlene Kennedy. The Albany Newspaper Guild, which represents half the paper’s employees, is alarmed that the layoffs came while it is still in negotiations with the paper. The Times Union is a major daily newspaper, serving [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
The St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, is laying off an undisclosed number of its newsroom employees. The layoffs were brought to the attention of the press by the Minnesota Newspaper Guild Typographical Union, which represents newsroom workers. The Pioneer Press is owned by Denver, Colorado’s MediaNews Group, which operates 54 daily newspapers in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
The Cincinnati Enquirer, that city’s only daily newspaper, has informed its employees that 100 people will be laid off next week. The paper’s parent company, Gannett, is in the midst of eliminating 1,400 jobs. Founded in 1840, The Cincinnati Enquirer is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Its circulation is 206,320 daily [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Newspaper publisher Gannett will cut 1,400 jobs, or 3% of its work force. Staffers were informed of the impending layoffs today. The majority of firings will occur before next Friday, July 9th. Last year, the publisher decimated its staff of 46,000 employees, cutting 10%. Gannett is a publicly-traded media holding company, and the largest US newspaper publisher [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Bellingham Herald, which cut ten jobs in March, will cut 30 further positions, 25 of them at a press in Mount Vernon. Also, remaining employees will have to take a one-week unpaid furlough this summer. Last week, the newspaper sold its building in downtown Bellingham, Washington for $2.35 million. After the cuts, the Herald will employ [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
The Seattle Times will sell Blethen Maine Newspapers, and 22 Blethen Maine employees will be laid off. Those affected are non-union employees. Top executives have also been targeted. Blethen Maine Newspapers was formed when Seattle Times bought all the newspapers formerly published by Guy Gannett Communications. Guy Gannett was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine [...]
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