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San Francisco Owner: Independent Effective: Sept. 10, 2009 The weekly Japanese-American paper will stop publishing. A nonprofit group is trying to raise money to keep the paper running. Source: Nic...
St Louis, Mo. Owner: Lee Enterprises Effective: Aug. 20, 2009 4 support employees were laid off in the newsroom. (The managing editor and deputy managing editor for features also recently announced...
Coral Gables, Fla. Owner: Limestone Communications Inc. Effective: Aug. 12, 2009 The weekly paper has stopped publishing a print edition. It will continue online at cggazette.com. Source: Editor & ...
Kansas City, Mo. Owner: The McClatchy Co. Announced: Aug. 11, 2009 Buyouts are being offered; a target number was not released. Employees also must take a one-week unpaid furlough by the end of the...
Portland, Augusta and Waterville, Maine Owner: MaineToday Media Inc. Effective: June 8, 2009 22 non-union employees were laid off. Source: Maine Biz
Augusta, Maine Owner: MaineToday Media Inc. Effective: Sept. 1, 2009 Printing will be outsourced to the Portland Press Herald. Buyouts are being offered. Source: Editor & Publisher
Chippewa Falls, Wis. Owner: Lee Enterprises Effective: Aug. 11, 2009 Printing will be outsourced to the LaCrosse Tribune. Source: Lee Watch
Mansfield, Ohio Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 7 employees were laid off. Source: Gannettoid
Bucyrus, Ohio Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 1 employee was laid off. Source: Gannettoid
Visalia, Calif. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 1 photographer who worked for the Tulare Advance-Register and the Visalia Times-Delta was laid off. Hours for 6 full-time employees w...
Pensacola, Fla. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 3 employees were laid off. 1 open position was eliminated. Source: Gannettoid
Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 “At least 2″ employees were laid off. Source: Gannett Blog
Tallahassee, Fla. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 26 jobs were cut. Source: Gannett Blog
Shreveport, La. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 9 jobs were cut. Source: Gannett Blog
Salisbury, Md. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 30 jobs were cut. Printing for two weeklies will be outsourced to another Gannett property. Source: The Daily Times Delmarva Media Gro...
Appleton, Wis. Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 3 jobs were cut. Source: Gannett Blog
New York Owner: HX Media LLC Effective: June 30, 2009 The 12-year-old biweekly paper has closed. Source: New York Times New York Gay Newspaper Suspends Publication By JENNIFER 8. LEE Published: Jul...
Boston Owner: Independent Effective: July 7, 2009 The 44-year-old weekly paper has closed. Its 12 employees were laid off. Source: The Associated Press
Cincinnati Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: July 9, 2009 In a memo, Publisher Margaret Buchanan said up to 100 employees will be laid off. Source: City Beat
Springfield, Mass. Owner: Advance Publications Effective: June 29, 2009 30 employees were laid off, including at least 12 editorial employees. Source: News Cycle
Valley View, Ohio Owner: Advance Publications Effective: Aug. 10, 2009 115 full- and part-time employees, including 30 reporters, 15 editors and 26 ad reps, will be laid off and half of the chain’s...
Bellingham, Wash. Owner: The McClatchy Co. Effective: June 8, 2009 5 employees were laid off, including 1 from the newsroom. Remaining employees must take a weeklong unpaid furlough by September. S...
DuBois, Penn. Owner: McLean Publishing Co. Effective: June 1, 2009 A column by the publisher said the paper has had to lay off employees. (I have asked him to clarify how many employees.) Publisher...
Tampa, Fla. Owner: Media General Effective: May 27, 2009 15 employees have been laid off so far; more layoffs are expected. 17 full-time newsroom employees were laid off. Sources: Tampa Tribune; Pa...
Tampa, Fla. Owner: Media General Effective: May 27, 2009 15 employees have been laid off so far; more layoffs are expected. 17 full-time Tampa Tribune newsroom employees were laid off, and 60 non-n...
Detroit Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: June 22, 2009 “Roughly 25″ employees will be laid off, including an unknown number of editorial employees. Source: The Associated Press
New York Owner: The Associated Press is a co-op owned by contributing newspapers, TV and radio stations. Effective: July 13, 2009 Buyouts are being offered. Source: Editor & Publisher The Associate...
Milford, N.H. Owner: Peter Bragdon Effective: March 10, 2009 The twice-monthly paper has suspended publication. Publisher/New Hampshire Sen. Peter Bragdon said he would consider starting the paper ...
Indianapolis Owner: Gannett Co. Inc. Effective: 2008 At least 178 employees have been laid off since August. Previous Paper Cuts reports accounted for only 74 of those layoffs: 8 in April 2009 42 i...
Chicago Owner: Sun-Times Media Group Effective: April 17, 2009 The managing editor, business editor and 4 other newsroom employees were laid off, as well as an unknown number of advertising employe...
Milwaukee Owner: Journal Communications Effective: April 6, 2009 26 full-time and 5 part-time employees were laid off. A plan to cut wages by 6 percent for the rest of the year was announced one we...
Yarmouth Port, Mass. Owner: GateHouse Media Inc. Effective: April 30, 2009 The weekly paper will close. Source: The Enterprise via Fading to Black GateHouse shuts down seven free Mass. weeklies NEE...
Yarmouth Port, Mass. Owner: GateHouse Media Inc. Effective: April 30, 2009 The weekly paper will close. Source: The Enterprise via Fading to Black GateHouse shuts down seven free Mass. weeklies NEE...
Las Vegas Owner: Stephens Media Group Effective: January 2009 2 employees were laid off: A photo editor and a listings editor Source: Paper Cuts comment
Lebanon, Penn. Owner: MediaNews Group Effective: April 2009 Printing will be outsourced to the York Daily Record. 7 jobs will be eliminated. Source: WHTM via Paper Cuts tip Major Change At Lebanon ...
Abilene, Texas Owner: E.W. Scripps Co. Effective: March 26, 2009 Design and copy editing for 4 Texas papers have been consolidated at the Caller-Times in Corpus Christi. Source: The Caller-Times vi...
Saginaw, Mich. Owner: Advance Publications Effective: June 4, 2009 The daily paper will cut its publication days to Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Source: The Saginaw News The Saginaw News to publish...
Fort Smith, Ark. Owner: Stephens Media Group Effective: October 2008 16 employees were laid off. Source: Paper Cuts tip
Ann Arbor, Mich. Owner: Advance Publications Effective: July 2009 The paper will close in July; all employees will be laid off. Sources: Ann Arbor News; Paper Cuts tips Ann Arbor News decision to c...
Pinckneyville, Ill. Owner: The McClatchy Co. Effective: March 26, 2009 The 140-year-old weekly paper will close. The paper’s reporter and ad rep were laid off. Source: KFVS via Paper Cuts tip; Du Q...
Davenport, Iowa Owner: Lee Enterprises Effective: January 2009 At least 2 corporate employees — both working for Lee’s interactive media division — were laid off. Other corporate employees may have...
Washington, D.C. Owner: Media General Inc. Effective: March 27, 2009 The Washington, D.C., bureau will close; 6 journalists will be laid off. Sources: Editor & Publisher and Paper Cuts tip Media Ge...
Rocklin, Calif. Owner: Gold Country Media Announced: March 11, 2009 An editorial says the paper has “made strategic staff reductions.” Source: The Placer Herald This newspaper is here to stay It ha...
Boston Owner: New York Times Co. Effective: March 11, 2009 19 full-time and 13 part-time advertising employees were laid off. Source: Boston Herald via Paper Cuts tip Boston Globe lays off 32 worke...
Roseburg, Ore. Owner: Swift Communications Effective: 2008 Layoffs and attrition cut the newsroom by 20 percent in the last year. Pressroom and distribution employees have been laid off too. Source...
Santa Clarita, Calif. Owner: Morris Multimedia Inc. Effective: Feb. 28, 2009 5 full-time and 2 part-time employees were laid off. Source: The Signal via Paper Cuts comment The Signal forced to make...
Beaufort, S.C. Owner: The McClatchy Co. Effective: March 10, 2009 9 employees were laid off and 8 open positions were eliminated at the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. Salary will be cut for al...
San Diego, Calif. Owner: Copley Press Effective: Jan. 13, 2009 20 pressroom employees were laid off. Source: Voice of San Diego via News Cycle Slimmed-Down U-T Lays Off Press Workers Published: Tue...
Charlotte, N.C. Owner: Carolina Weekly Group Effective: January 2009 3 employees were laid off. Source: Paper Cuts tip
Omaha, Neb. Owner: Omaha World-Herald Co. Effective: March/April 2008 6 employees were laid off. Source: Paper Cuts tip
Mesa, Ariz. Owner: Freedom Communications Effective: 2009 The paper has closed. There were no direct layoffs — employees were reassigned to other papers that operate from the same office. Source: P...
Carmel, N.Y. Owner: Journal Register Co. Effective: February 2009 The paper has closed. Source: Daily Freeman via @themediaisdying Dutchess, Putnam weekly newspapers to close Tuesday, February 10, ...
Norfolk, Va. Owner: Landmark Communications Inc. Effective: March 2009 30 employees will be laid off, including 10 from Port Folio and Mix employees, 8 from online operations and 6 from the newsroo...
Raytown, Mo. Owner: NPG Newspapers Effective: 2008 NPG Newspapers cut 60 jobs in 2008. Source: St. Joseph News-Press News-Press responds to economic downturn by St. Joseph News-Press Tuesday, Febru...
Hiawatha, Kan. Owner: NPG Newspapers Effective: 2008 NPG Newspapers cut 60 jobs in 2008. Source: St. Joseph News-Press News-Press responds to economic downturn by St. Joseph News-Press Tuesday, Feb...
Flandreau and Rapid City, S.D. Owner: Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Effective: Jan. 13, 2009 The papers have closed. Source: Editor & Publisher Native-American Weekly Folds in Sioux Falls The Associ...
Chicago Owner: Tribune Co. Effective: Feb. 12, 2009 Up to 60 jobs will be eliminated. 20 newsroom employees were laid off Feb. 12. Sources: Craini’s Chicago Business via Paper Cuts tips; @nwspprscp...
Freeport, Ill. Owner: GateHouse Media Inc. Effective: Jan. 29, 2009 5 employees were laid off. The paper also eliminated its Monday edition. Source: The Journal-Standard Tuesday change, price incre...
Weekly editors, feature staff and sub-editors may face cuts.
Newsquest – Bury Times management and production moved to Bolton. One reporter left in town.
Shropshire Newspapers – 12 editorial compulsory redundancies
Newsquest – weekly paper office closed
Another 20 editorial cuts expected this year at the Post and Yorkshire Evening Post
NUJ says list of volunteers accepted.
Cuts affect four dailies published by Controlinveste Media and will affect around 66 journalists.
New round of compulsory redundancies after voluntary scheme failed to meet target.
Failure to meet voluntary redundancy target leds to new round of compulsory cuts.
Staff numbers at East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Evening Star will drop by 20
13 staff to be made redundant - 11 in commercial department and two from Economist's Intelligence Unit.
Seattle paper could go online-only.
Staff numbers at East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Evening Star will drop by 20
Around 40 staff expected to go with more than a third of online and interactive team axed.
Publisher to relocate staff of Newham Recorder, Stratford Express, Dagenham Post, Havering Post, Romford Recorder, Ham & High series, the Islington Gazette, the Hornsey Journal series and the Wille...
Further integration and digital push timed with global recession leads to losses.
A series from Poynter on 'what to do before the axe falls' starting with creating an online presence and backing up your work contacts.
Campaign against moving newspaper production to Bolton office launched on social networking site
"LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees and offered them no severance," Gawker reports.
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the World Federation of Science Journalists have sent a...
South Manchester Reporter office closed and staff moved to Stockport - Guardian Media Group
1 of the 2 Trinity Mirror offices closed
Trinity Mirror office closed
Newsquest was looking for one redundancy from the Milford Mercury and Western Telegraph reporting team. Instead, all four reporters agreed to an equal cut in hours.
Herald Group's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) reps have hired employment lawyers following claims that staff could lose redundancy benefits if they do not either volunteer for redundancy or re...
Bill Dyszel rounds-up the magazine closures in the US so far.
iwantmyrocky.com, launched at the weekend, is 'a vehicle' for staffers at the Rocky Mountain News to highlight why their newspaper is worth saving, SFNblog reports.
Extensive staff cuts in US newsrooms will affect the diversity of the organisations and their reporting, according to this report. As the US' first black president comes to power, journalists who ...
Johnston Press' Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Post contemplating outsourcing subbing to the Press Association.
Matthew Bell reports that parodist Craig Brown remains in good spirits despite the Telegraph cutting his column: "Why shouldn't they get rid of me?" Brown is quoted as saying. "I'm a freelancer; I ...
Trinity Mirror's Media Wales closes three out of six local branches in the series and reduces number of titles editors from seven to four. A new multimedia editor will be appointed. Eight staff ha...
News International's Love It! magazine has been bought by Burda. The title's art director, publisher and editor made redundant as part of buy-out.
11 jobs to go as titles in Blackpool, Preston and Lancaster closed.
11 posts expected to go.
Magazine is reopening voluntary redundancies after 111 layoffs in spring.
With suggestions that president-elect Barack Obama is going to resurrect a Roosevelt style New Deal programme, Mark I. Pinsky says writers and journalists should be involved and put to use for publ...
CBS CEO admits he would not proceed with CNET acquisition, completed in May, in the current environment.
CBS CEO admits he would not proceed with CNET acquisition, completed in May, in the current environment.
Cuts to be made in reporting, editorial and production areas, as well as in digital media and admin support.
Plans to mortgage or sell HQ to raise $225 million (£152 million).
Plans to mortgage or sell HQ to raise $225 million (£152 million).
Layoffs at CBSNews, CNET and other businesses make up cuts.
Following a research report, Paul Conley feels its time for him to say something 'he has hesitated to say'. "The B2B industry, as we know it, is about to collapse," he writes. The B2B publishing i...
At least eight jobs to go.
Changes could spell 15 job losses in region and a further 12 job cuts at the Leigh Journal.
"Whats black and white and completely over?" asks Stewart.
Editors should decide what kind of news items might be better suited and covered by readers outside of the newsroom. "The truth is, scrapbook news written by journalists is effectively the same as...
Employees' retirement accounts are likely to be affected by Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, while ex-employees, who left the company in the past year, may be left as its creditors.
Review and possible merger of production and photographic departments could lead to job cuts.
NUJ members at Newsquest York, which publishes the York and County Press, will ballot on whether to take industrial action following a group-wide pay freeze.
Cuts at Viacom and NBC Universal contribute to 30,000 media job losses in 2008, according to AdAge analysis of Department of Labor statistics.
Trinity Mirror office closed
Trinity Mirror office closed
Trinity Mirror office closed
Trinity Mirror office closed
Trinity Mirror office closed
Trinity Mirror – 23 editorial jobs lost
Tindle – 1 editorial job lost
Johnston Press – 1 editorial job lost, plus 75 non-editorial jobs
Johnston Press – 5 editorial jobs lost as Glasgow East News and Ayrshire Extra closed
Job losses will reach 2,000 across its 85 US titles, says publisher.
Ali predicts more job cuts over next few months and potential closure of UK national newspaper
Paper aims to reduce workforce by not replacing staff who have left.
Part of cost-cutting programme sees 14% cut in workforce.
Further seven job cuts adds to 17 redundancies announced earlier in the year.
10 per cent cut in staff at EMAP Inform, publisher of 21 magazines.
Company-wide redundancies will result in 3% drop in staff numbers.
NUJ members at title enter 30-day consultation period.
Staff told 43 journalists could be made redundant and briefed on proposed centralised subbing unit, which would cause 8-10 job losses.
Cuts come in both London and Scottish offices.
Northern Ireland's main political parties petition against UTV plans for voluntary redundancies and cuts in news programming, which could lead to 28 jobs lost.
Company seeking voluntary redundancies as it looks to shed 23 editorial jobs in Newcastle and a further 5 at its Teesside branch.
B2B publisher looking to cut 47 staff from its built environment division.
Compulsory redundancies handed out to reporters, production and IT staff.
Midland News Association to shed staff at Shropshire Star and Express & Star titles.
Round of redundancies begin at UK freesheet's offices.
'[U]nsustainable annual trading losses' lead to job losses.
Cuts divided equally between photodesk, production and reporters.
Weekend strike for Fairfax newspaper staff following redundancy announcement.
Cuts will affect 180 journalists in Australia and New Zealand.
New editorial structure and centralised multimedia desks will require fewer journalists, says TM.
Two freesheets closed in Scotland resulting in 15 job losses; while Trinity Mirror will cease publication of the Bridgend Post.
Employees told 30 jobs will be lost across all departments.
Columbia Journalism Review looking for contributions to its 'Parting Thoughts' series for redundant journalists.
Changes to Wall Street Journal's editorial and production operations to result in job losses.
New working arrangements are agreed at the Telegraph.
Blog voices opposition to Sam Zell, Los Angeles Times' owner.
Staff to take industrial action over proposed 129 job cuts affecting 90 journalists.
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