from Herald: more job cuts at the Globe
Globe faces more job cuts
By Jesse Noyes
Boston Herald Business Reporter
Boston Globe employees face a big round of job cuts, with as many as 19 editorial jobs on the chopping block, according to internal memos obtained by the Herald.
A memo from Publisher P. Steven Ainsley said The New York Times [NYT] Co.’s New England Media Group, which includes the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is looking to slash 125 jobs.
A separate memo from Globe Editor Martin Baron says about 17 jobs will be cut from the broadsheet’s newsroom and two positions will be lost from the paper’s opinion pages.
Some open positions in the newsroom will also be frozen, the Baron memo said.
The New England Media Group will offer voluntary buyouts to employees who have worked at the company for 10 years or more, according to Ainsley’s memo. The company is also planning to outsource a number of jobs, the memo states.
Employees at Boston.com will not be affected by the round of layoffs, the memo states.
Baron, who is out of town, sent the memo to newsroom staff. The broadsheet’s top editor was apparently surprised by the timing of the announcement. In the memo he said he expected to “be in the newsroom when the announcement was made.”
“As we have done in the past, we will re-examine all of our work, looking for ways to streamline and reorganize,” Baron said in the memo. “And as with past buyouts, we will have to make hard choices, even discontinuing some work.”