Boston
Owner: New York Times Co.
Date: Feb. 28, 2008
Update: Nov. 8, 2008
48 employees accepted buyout offers. 12 positions were cut through attrition.
Source: Romenesko; Boston Globe via Paper Cuts tip
The Boston Globe: 48
The Dispatch: 5
Lexington, N.C.
Owner: New York Times Co.
Date: February/March 2008
Five employees were laid off, including a police reporter and part-time photographer.
Source: The Dispatch
The Columbian: 30
Vancouver, Wash.
Owner: The Columbian Publishing Co.
Date: February 2008
The paper eliminated 30 positions in February.
Source: Portland Business Journal
Orange County Register: 1
Santa Ana, Calif.
Owner: Freedom Communications Inc.
Date: Feb. 9, 2008
One employee volunteered for a buyout when the OC Post stopped printing.
Source: Paper Cuts tip
February 2008: 1,177+
- Orange County Register: 1
- Times Record: 10
- Tracy Press: Unknown
- Press-Telegram: 31
- The Daily Breeze: 9
- Los Angeles Daily News: 22
- Orlando Sentinel: 45
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel: 47
- Newsday: 120
- Worcester Telegram & Gazette: 20
- Boston Globe: 60
- The Enterprise: Unknown
- Patriot Ledger: Unknown
- Philadelphia Newspapers: 68
- Albuquerque Tribune: 38+
- San Jose Mercury News: 50
- Oakland Tribune: Unknown
- Contra Costa Times: Unknown
- Bay Area News Group papers: 107
- Ventura County Star: 7
- Chicago Sun-Times: Unknown
- New York Times: 100
- Morning Call: Unknown
- Los Angeles Times: “100 to 150″
- Chicago Tribune: 100
- Baltimore Sun: 45
- Hartford Courant: “Fewer than 45″
- The News-Gazette: 7
- Star Tribune: 58
- Capital Times: 20+
- Washington Post: 100+
- Tribune Co.: 12
Times Record: 10
Brunswick, Maine
Owner: Sample News Group
Date: Feb. 29, 2008
One reporter, a computer tech, a customer service representative, a receptionist and several advertising workers were laid off.
Source: Sun Journal
Tracy Press: Unknown
Tracy, Calif.
Owner: Matthews family
Date: Feb. 28, 2008
Owner Robert Matthews blamed the economy for cutbacks, but did not specify how many jobs had been cut when the paper went from publishing three times a week to two.
Source: InsideBayArea.com
Press-Telegram: 31
Long Beach, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: Feb. 13, 2008
The Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif., and The Long Beach Press-Telegram combined operations. The Press-Telegram’s publisher, managing editor, editing and design desk, and nine other newsroom positions were laid off.
Source: The Daily Breeze
The Daily Breeze: 6
Torrance, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: Feb. 13, 2008
The Breeze laid off six newsroom employees and eliminated three unfilled editorial positions.
Source: The Daily Breeze
Los Angeles Daily News: 22
Los Angeles
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: Feb. 28, 2008
22 editorial employees will be laid off.
Source: LA Observed
