The New York Times and the Cleveland Plain Dealer will cut a total of 88 newsroom staffers in coming weeks as the publications seek to reduce expenses while advertising revenues continue to ebb, notes Grumpy Editor.
The Times, the nation’s newspaper of record, is seeking volunteers for buyouts from 30 non-union newsroom managers. If that mark isn’t reached, the newspaper will enact layoffs.
Latest round of Times staff trimming follows four other reductions in the past five years.
“There is no getting around the hard news that the size of the newsroom staff must be reduced,” Jill Abramson, Times executive editor, informs the editorial department.
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio’s top-circulated newspaper, plans to cut 58 positions from its newsroom next year. That represents about one third of its Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild’s members.
Layoffs could come as early as March.
Some of the departing PD staffers could be transferred to the newspaper’s Website, Cleveland.com.
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