Posted on 12/06/2005 7:56:17 AM PST by abb
LOS ANGELES -- Tribune Co.'s Los Angeles Times newspaper will cut about 110 positions from across its production facilities as part of a consolidation of three facilities and the closure of one plant.
The nation's fourth-largest newspaper said in a Monday press release that the consolidation plans include locations in downtown Los Angeles; Costa Mesa, Calif.; and Irwindale, Calif., while the closed plant is in Chatsworth, Calif.
The job cuts disclosed Monday come less than a month after the Times, coupled with fellow Tribune newspaper Chicago Tribune, said it planned to cut about 185 jobs. On Nov. 16, The Wall Street Journal reported that in a memo to the editorial staff, Times Editor Dean Baquet said about 85 newsroom jobs, or about 8% of the total work force, would be cut by the end of the year. (See related story.)
The Times, which plans to accomplish as many of the Chatsworth job eliminations as possible through a voluntary separation package, said the transition to the downtown Los Angeles and Costa Mesa facilities will be complete in the first quarter.
Following the transition, the Times plans to begin the process of selling the 250,000-square-foot Chatsworth facility.
Representatives for Tribune weren't immediately available to comment on whether the company would record any charges as a result of the job cuts.
Write to Geoffrey Rogow at geoffrey.rogow@dowjones.com
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Women and minorities hardest hit....
Anyone for Dominos? Bwhahahahahaha!
Happy days are here again.
Liberals and unions hardest hit.
"You want fries with that?"
Too bad the job eliminations won't start at the top, then immediately weed out the so-called reporters.
It looks like the year-end headline for 2005 will be:
The Decline and Fall of Mainstream Media
The sad part is some poor schmuck in production is losing his job because of the idology and lack of skill of his "superiors".
They'd probably do better if they let the production people write the papers.
The LA Times has been a cheerleader for the open-borders crowd, with almost daily pro-mass immigration articles and editorials. It apparently never occurred to them that the newcomers who would take over their city might not be big newspaper readers, certainly not of English-language papers.
Unfortunately, Michael Ramirez will be one of those losing his job. IMO, Ramirez is the best political cartoonist in America today.
> The sad part is some poor schmuck in production is
> losing his job because of the idology and lack of
> skill of his "superiors".
Print is dying, where the web can replace it.
Lefty print is just dying faster.
Lots of poor schmuck scribes lost their jobs due to
Gutenberg, and telegraphers were shown the door due
to Bell. In any job, every employee needs to keep
abreast of the financial health of the concern, and
developments in theirs and competing fields.
George Soros is deeply saddened.
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