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...Monday, July 20, 2009
Cygnus Business Media has cut 50 jobs across the company, targeting editorial and sales. The cuts affect 12% of the firm’s staff. The magazines Lustre, Modern Jeweler, RV Trade Digest and Wood Digest will suspend operations. I don’t know what I’m going to do if I can’t read Wood Digest every month. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin’s Cygnus Business [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
McGraw-Hill will consolidate its educational publishing businesses into a single group, costong 550 employees their jobs. The firm will also sell BusinessWeek magazine. The company employs 21,650 workers. McGraw-Hill cut a total of 1,045 positions last year, or 4.9% of its 21,171 employees as of the end of 2007. Founded in 1917, McGraw-Hill is headquartered in Rockefeller Center [...]
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 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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Lehigh Phoenix will lay off 54 employees by August, as it consolidates its production and administrative operations. The firm also has plants in Hagerstown, Maryland and Rockaway, New Jersey. Lehigh Phoenix is the principal provider of cover components, overhead transparencies and juvenile book production for the publishing industry in the United States. It previously operated [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Cincinnati, Ohio’s St. Anthony Messenger Press will cut staff, closing its Cincinnati telemarketing center, offering voluntary early retirement, and cutting its independent sales force. It would not say how many jobs will be lost. The firm will instead focus on its “inspirational” products and services. The firm is looking into cutting salaries and bonuses. The religious publisher [...]
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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