Chicago
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: April 22, 2009
20 percent of the newsroom staff will be laid off. A year ago, the paper had 480 newsroom employees.
53 newsroom employees were laid off. The layoffs came the same day Tribune Co. asked the bankruptcy court to approve $13 million in bonuses to 700 managers.
Sources: Chicago Tribune; Paper Cuts tip; Crain’s Chicago
* Updated April 22, 2009, with the number of layoffs.
Whitman, Mass.
Owner: GateHouse Media Inc.
Effective: April 30, 2009
The weekly paper will close.
Source: The Enterprise via Fading to Black
Modesto, Calif.
Owner: The McClatchy Co.
Date: April 15, 2008
Updated: Aug. 22, 2008
11 employees accepted buyout offers.
Source: The Modesto Bee
Rupert, Idaho
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: April 2008
The weekly paper was closed.
Source: Times-News via Lee Watch
Shoshone, Idaho
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: April 2008
The weekly paper was closed.
Source: Times-News via Lee Watch
Hudson, N.H.
Owner: Independent Publications
Date: April 30, 2008
Eleven full-time and eight part-time employees were laid off.
Source: The Telegraph via Paper Cuts tip
Sebring, Fla.
Owner: Media General Inc.
Date: April 14, 2008
Updated: June 25, 2008
Buyouts are being offered to half of the staff of the Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV, Sunbelt Newspapers, Suncoast News, Hernando Today, Highlands Today and Centro Grupo de Comunicacion. Layoffs are possible.
Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal; Editor & Publisher
Tampa, Fla.
Owner: Media General Inc.
Date: April 14, 2008
Updated: June 25, 2008
Updated: July 1, 2008
Twenty-nine newsroom employees accepted buyouts or resigned.
Source: Tampa Bay Online; Tampa Bay Business Journal; Editor & Publisher
Galveston, Texas
Owner: Southern Newspapers Inc.
Date: April 12, 2008
The paper cut 12 full- and part-time employees and three independent contractors.
Source: Galveston County Daily News via e-mail source
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Owner: News-Journal Corp.
Date: April 22, 2008
Updated: June 23, 2008
Trying to make the company look more profitable before it is sold, the News-Journal will lay off 99 employees in editorial, advertising, circulation, operations, purchasing, distribution and marketing.
Source: Romenesko; Paper Cuts tip and News-Journal
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