Riverside, Calif.
Owner: A.H. Belo Corp.
Effective: Oct. 20, 2010

Eleven pressroom employees, a photo technician and an editorial assistant were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gary Scott

Joliet, Ill.
Owner: Sun-Times Media Group
Effective: July 8, 2011

Four employees were laid off, including the managing editor, features editor, editorial and business editor, and an education reporter. The paper now has 13 editorial staff members.
Source: Time Out Chicago via Paper Cuts tip

Boise, Idaho
Owner: The McClatchy Co.
Announced: Aug. 15, 2011

An unknown number of employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Update: Nine employees were laid off: two reporters, one designer, one web editor, three copy editors, an information technology employee and a production employee. (08.18.11)
Source: Paper Cuts tip; Idaho Business Review via Paper Cuts tip

Overland Park, Kan.
Owner: News-Press & Gazette Co.
Effective: Aug. 16, 2011

The weekly paper has closed; 20 employees were laid off. Lee Sawyer, executive vice president and chief operating officer of News-Press & Gazette Co., called the closure a suspension and told The Kansas City Star he wants to revive the paper “in a different format … or a different business model.”
Source: The Kansas City Star

Los Angeles
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: Aug. 28, 2011

Ten union pressroom employees will be laid off “in response to the decline in revenue and page counts,” according to a memo from Senior Vice President Russ Newton. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Sources: Save Our Trade via Fishbowl LA

St. Louis, Mo.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: Sept. 9, 2011

Buyouts are being offered to newsroom employees. In a memo to employees, the company said it “anticipate(s) accepting up to 10 requests for voluntary severance.” Employees have until Sept. 6 to accept the buyout offer. Five newsroom employees accepted a buyout offer in June and July.
Source: Post-Dispatch memo

Update: Three newsroom employees — a sports reporter, a web producer and a designer — accepted the buyout offer. Three more newsroom employees — two researchers and the paper’s wire editor — were laid off. Two open reporting positions also were eliminated. “In addition, we renegotiated lower rates with most of our syndicates and wire services, and reduced expenses as much as possible elsewhere in an effort to protect as many positions as possible,” Editor Arnie Robbins wrote in a memo to employees. (09.07.11)
Source: Post-Dispatch memo

Full disclosure: I work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Cincinnati
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: “Fourth quarter” 2012

Gannett announced it has signed a letter of intent to outsource printing of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Kentucky Enquirer to The Columbus Dispatch. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gannett Blog

The Enquirer reported 200 employees will be laid off when printing is outsourced. “We regret the loss of local positions, and worked hard to retain these jobs within Ohio,” Enquirer Media president and publisher Margaret Buchanan said. “Unfortunately, it was necessary to allow us to produce a better product more efficiently, and ultimately better serve the community.” (02.12.12)
Source: Media Bistro via Paper Cuts tip

Dallas
Owner: A.H. Belo Corp.
Effective: Aug. 5, 2011

North Plant and information technology employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Sources: DMN Cuts

Orlando, Fla.
Owner: Tribune Co.
Announced: Aug. 8, 2011

Most copy editing and design work is being outsourced to the Chicago Tribune. The Sentinel will design its own A1, sports and living pages; 20 employees will be laid off.
Source: Orlando Business Journal

Iowa City, Iowa
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: Aug. 15, 2011

Two employees were laid off, including Executive Editor Jim Lewers, when the newsroom was reorganized. “These staffing adjustments today were made to ensure we’ve got our valuable resources in the very best places so that we can deliver the high-quality journalism our readers deserve and demand,” General Manager Gabriel Aguirre said in a story on the Press-Citizen’s website.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen via Paper Cuts tip