New York Times newsroom — nation’s largest — will lose 100 jobs
The New York Times announced plans Monday to cut 100 jobs from its newsroom by the end of this year. That’s 8 percent of the newsroom.
The Times is offering buyouts but is prepared to lay off workers if enough don’t volunteer to leave. The Times has had one previous round of layoffs, last year, when about 100 jobs were cut while a few others were added.
An article on the New York Times’ online site says:
Times executives said this year that they did not anticipate — but would not rule out — the news staff shrinking in 2009, except through attrition. In fact, when employees took a 5 percent pay cut for most of this year, it was meant to forestall any staff reductions. But hopes for a year-end turnaround in the newspaper business have faded.
Third-quarter results reported in the last few days by the Gannett Co. and the McClatchy Co. indicate that the industry’s steep drop in advertising barely slowed in the third quarter. The New York Times Co. will report its results for the quarter on Thursday.
The article says:
The Times’s news department peaked at more than 1,330 employees before the last round of cuts. The current number of workers is about 1,250; no other American newspaper has more than about 750.
Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980. 
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What? They weren’t part of Obamaman’s stimulus?
Great news! Of course, they should have expected this after Bush left office. Now they don’t have anyone to smear or complain about.
Did the Post get its daily pat on the head from the White House? And, what time it the Hate Fox rally - I didn’t see it in the paper? I feel so much more secure with the Chicago-based Obama Administration in the White House, and the left wing nutcases controlling Congress, I will gladly give them more control of the Internet. Oh, and I seem to have misplaced my Little Red Book, so what am I supposed to do today, besides hate Fox and protest against the beougois and capitalism?
Is that American democracy I hear breathing its last?
Sedona Sam… Do you have any idea what you’re taking relish in?
“American democracy … breathing its last?”
Hyperbole much?
Haven’t you heard? Hyperbole is the best thing ever!
I thought Obozo’s stimulus package was supposed to create jobs. I’ll I can see is layoff after layoff. Just another lie in a long list of lies.
They lived by the sword. They died by the sword.