Norwich, Conn.
Owner: GateHouse Media Inc.
Effective: March 2009

Printing was outsourced, and an unknown number of employees were laid off. The paper’s custom publications staff also was laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: The Day

New London, Conn.
Owner: The Day Publishing Co.
Date: April 1, 2011

Printing was outsourced to the Providence Journal. Day Publisher Gary Farrugia said the move would result in “significant efficiencies and cost savings,” and layoffs. The Day has 151 full- and part-time pre-press, press, mailroom and circulation employees, but Farrugia said the number of employees who would be laid off had not been determined, pending “details of the final agreement” with the Journal. Weekly papers owned by Day Publishing will continue to be published in New London. “I recognize and deeply regret the hardship this announcement will place on the good employees who will be affected by job loss,” Farrugia said in a story on the paper’s website. “This is not a move we entered into lightly. Rather, it represents a strategic pivot for the entire company.”

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Source: The Day

Update: Thirty-eight employees were laid off when printing was outsourced to the Providence Journal. Most of those laid off worked in the printing division; Editor Gary Farrugia said other divisions were affected, including the newsroom where two employees were laid off. “I don’t think people realize how much business was hurt by the weather,” Farrugia said. “We’ve gotten a good financial bump” from outsourcing printing, he said. (09.09.12)
Source: Norwich Bulletin

Hartford, Conn.
Owner: Tribune Co.
Announced: Dec. 8, 2011

Janitorial services were outsourced; eight employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Creedible via Paper Cuts tip

New Haven, Conn.
Owner: Journal Register Co.
Date: February 2012

Printing was outsourced to the Hartford Courant; 105 pressroom and mailroom employees were laid off. When asked if additional layoffs were anticipated, Publisher Tom Wiley said “no.”
Sources: New Haven Register via Paper Cuts tip

Hartford, Conn.
Owner: Tribune Co.
Announced: May 11, 2012

Nine newsroom employees accepted a buyout offer. Buyouts also were offered to finance, advertising, circulation and press employees. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com.
Source: CJR via Paper Cuts tip

New London, Conn.
Owner: The Day Publishing Co.
Date: Dec. 14, 2011

Seven percent of the paper’s 273 positions were eliminated; four open positions were eliminated. In a letter to employees, Publisher Gary Farrugia blamed declining advertising revenue: “These actions come as we reconcile what is shaping up to be a very disappointing year financially.”
Source: The Day

Norwich, Conn.
Owner: GateHouse Media Inc.
Effective: Nov. 14, 2011

Executive editor Jim Konrad announced seven newsroom positions will be eliminated. The announcement on the Bulletin’s website provided no other details.
Source: Norwich Bulletin

New Haven, Conn.
Owner: Journal Register Co.
Date: Aug. 22, 2011

The paper’s editor was laid off. New editor Matt DeRienzo now will oversee the Journal Register’s three Connecticut daily papers. When asked if there would be more newsroom layoffs, DeRienzo declined to comment.
Source: New Haven Independent

Baltimore; Newport News, Va.; Hartford, Conn.; Allentown, Pa.; Orlando; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: July 18, 2011

Tribune Co. daily papers were reorganized; Chicago Tribune Publisher Tony Hunter will oversee all Tribune papers except the Los Angeles Times. An unspecified number of finance and administrative employees were laid off. Tribune Co. spokesman Gary Weitman told The Associated Press that jobs were cut, but declined to provide specifics. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: The Associated Press

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