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  • McClatchy to lay off 1,150 employees (dividend slashed 50%) (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

    09/16/2008 1:56:34 PM PDT · by abb · 34 replies · 617+ views
    Marketwatch.com ^ | September 16, 2008 | Sue Chang
    McClatchy Co. (MNI) will lay off about 1,150 employees, equivalent to 10% of its total workforce, in an effort to reduce costs, the media company said late Tuesday. About half of the staff reduction will come from voluntary programs and attrition, according to McClatchy. The layoffs will result in $100 million in savings over the next four quarters, excluding severance costs of around $20 million. snip
  • Watching McClatchy (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

    03/03/2008 4:23:47 PM PST · by abb · 12 replies · 89+ views
    Slate ^ | March 3, 2008 | Jack Shafer
    As a leading indicator of the newspaper biz's health, what does the chain's bad news portend for the rest of the industry? Just two years ago, McClatchy Co. President and CEO Gary Pruitt boasted the sunniest disposition of all newspaper executives. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, he toasted newspapers as "still among the best media businesses" as his firm's purchase of the Knight Ridder chain tripled its print holdings. Pruitt conceded that newspaper advertising had peaked in 2000, but he maintained that no competitors in local markets had held their audiences as well as newspapers. Far from being a...