Washington, D.C.
Owner: Washington Post Co.
Effective: Aug. 10, 2011

The paper is reorganizing its features sections: Travel and food are being consolidated, and books is being split into fiction and nonfiction groups. “While these changes are meant to enhance the quality, quantity and range of content we produce in these groups, they will affect a small number of newsroom jobs,” Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli wrote in a memo to employees. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Fishbowl DC via Media Jobs Daily

Everett, Wash.
Owner: Washington Post Co.
Date: Oct. 1, 2011

Seventeen full- or part-time employees and 150 independent contractors will be laid off when delivery is outsourced to the Seattle Times. General Manager David Dadisman told the Sky Valley Chronicle this is a “cost cutting move intended to focus the paper’s resources elsewhere.”
Source: Sky Valley Chronicle

Baltimore
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: Sept. 9, 2011

Buyouts have been offered; The Daily Record reports the Sun is looking to cut 20 to 25 positions. “The company has initiated bargaining today with the (Washington-Baltimore Newspaper) guild over the terms of a voluntary buyout offer,” Sun marketing director Renee Mutchnik said in a statement. Ten of the proposed buyouts are in the newsroom: two columnists, two critics, an editorial writer, two copy editors, two designers and a photographer, according to Andrea K. Walker, a business reporter and newsroom chairwoman for the guild unit.
Sources: The Daily Record via Media Jobs Daily

Toldeo
Owner: Block Communications Inc.
Announced: Aug. 1, 2011

New labor contracts ratified at the end of July include 3 percent wage cuts, higher medical costs, less paid time off, a pension freeze and 67 buyouts. Contracts are effective through May 31, 2014; I am not clear when those buyouts will take effect. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Toledo Blade

Melbourne, Fla.
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Date: Aug. 11, 2011

Newsroom staffing is being cut by more than 25 percent. Editors have been laid off and employees have been asked to apply for the remaining jobs. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gannett Blog

Update: About a quarter of the paper’s newsroom employees were laid off today — depending on the “before” number, that’s about 20 to 25 employees. Employees were asked to reapply for their jobs before the cuts were made. There are now 57 newsroom positions. Do you know what that number is? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. (08.11.11)
Source: Gannett Blog

Alaska
Owner: Alaska Newspapers Inc., a subsidiary of Calista Corp.
Effective: Aug. 31, 2011

Six weekly papers will close: Tundra Drums, Arctic Sounder, Bristol Bay Times, Cordova Times, Dutch Harbor Fisherman and Seward Phoenix Log. Calista Corp. had tried to sell the papers; the corporation has announced its newspaper assets will be liquidated. “ANI leaves behind an impressive legacy,” said Andrew Guy, president and chief executive officer of Calista. “We’re very appreciative of the superb staff and extraordinary talent that have worked so hard to report on rural Alaska. We genuinely hope the communities affected by this will find a new media voice to tell their stories.”
Sources: Alaska Dispatch; Alaska News

Update: The Cordova Times was bought by Aug. 2 by Jennifer Gibbins, the paper’s editor. The Arctic Sounder, Bristol Bay Times and Dutch Harbor Fisherman were bought Aug. 5 by Jason Evans and Kiana Peacock. Buyers have not been found for the Tundra Drums and Seward Phoenix Log and bimonthly magazine First Alaskans; they are still slated to close. (08.17.11)
Source: The News Tribune

Update: The Tundra Drums and Seward Phoenix Log were bought by Eric Blanchford, an associate professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage who previously owned the Seward Phoenix Log. (08.19.11)
Source: Alaska Native News

Dallas
Owner: A.H. Belo Corp.
Effective: Aug. 4, 2011

The weekly entertainment tab owned by The Dallas Morning News has closed. Seven full-time employees (three ad reps and four newsroom employees) and two part-time employees were laid off.
Source: DMN Cuts

Los Angeles
Owner: MediaNews Group
Effective: July 6, 2011

An online content producer and a web producer/designer were laid off.
Source: Gary Scott

New Haven, Conn.
Owner: New Mass Media, a subsidiary of Tribune Co.
Effective: July 8, 2011

Two designers and publisher Joshua Mamis were laid off. A memo from Hartford Courant CEO, president and publisher Rich Graziano noted that Tribune is outsourcing design to Chicago: “Other changes are a result of our on-going participation in Media on Demand (MoD), which provides fully edited and designed non-local news and features content for Tribune newspapers and websites. MoD will expand to take on copy-editing and page design for several newspapers including The Hartford Courant at a center based in the Chicago Tribune newsroom, where the content-sharing hub is located.” The publisher will not be replaced.
Source: New Haven Independent

Los Angeles
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: July 27, 2011

Spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said a “small number” of employees were laid off, but declined to give an exact number. LA Observed speculated “perhaps a dozen or so on the news side.” Fishbowl LA reports some employees also accepted buyout offers. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Sources: The Associated Press; LA Observed; Fishbowl LA