Posted on 12/02/2005 7:29:22 AM PST by LdSentinal
NEW YORK Newsday in Melville, N.Y., yesterday dismissed 72 employees and announced that 40 additional vacant jobs will be eliminated. Meanwhile, another Tribune Co. paper, The Morning-Call in Allentown, Pa., said it will end publication of Chronicle Newspapers, its chain of 11 weekly community papers, as part of cost-cutting measures.
The Allentown newspaper will permanently lay off about 5 % percent of its workers, spokeswoman Vicki Mayk said, or almost 50 of The Morning Call's work force of 950.
At Newsday, no "news gathering personnel" were affected by yesterday's announcement, according to a memo to employees from publisher Timothy P. Knight on Thursday. But this comes just a month after the newsroom staff was reduced by 59 people, largely through buyouts.
"Today's changes are unfortunate, but necessary to position Newsday to pursue opportunities with confidence," Knight wrote. "I know this kind of change is not easy."
He said the newspaper also is outsourcing its mailroom operations.
According to an article in the paper this morning, "Many of Newsday's city-based reporters have been transferred to its Melville headquarters. This week, the paper began moving all but one of its Queens-based reporters and other staff to either its Manhattan or Melville offices."
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune said it was cutting 28 editorial jobs, just the latest of hundreds of job losses at Tribune papers in the past month.
I would love to see those unamerican cork soakers at Newsday crash and/or burn.
Do ya think these papers have learned anything yet?
Newsday is absolute left-wing garbage, one of the worst. No conservative person could possibly purchase their product, and that is the reason they are dying.
Long Island is loaded with upwardly-mobile citizens who do not hate America or President Bush. Yet Newsday chooses not only to ignore them, but to openly anger them and drive them away.
They'll never admit it, and they will die.
They're firing everyone but the editors & columnists which means... the subcribership will continue to plummit.
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