Los Angeles
Owner: Tribune Co.
Date: June 26, 2008
Update: July 2, 2008
In its second round of cuts this year, the paper will eliminate 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom.
Source: Los Angeles Times; LA Observed
Los Angeles Times: 250 *
Santa Cruz Sentinel: 3
Santa Cruz, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 27, 2008
Three people were laid off, two of them from the newsroom.
Source: San Francisco Peninsula Press Club
Suffolk Life: 100+
Riverhead, N.Y.
Owner: Suffolk Life Newspapers
Date: June 19, 2008
The weekly paper, which employs more than 100 people, has ceased publication.
Source: Newsday via Paper Cuts tip
Palo Alto Daily News: 6
Palo Alto, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 27, 2008
Six employees were laid off, and the paper killed its Monday edition in Palo Alto and its Tuesday edition in San Mateo County.
Source: San Francisco Peninsula Press Club
Oakland Tribune: Unknown
Oakland, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 27, 2008
A memo from Publisher John Armstrong warns of layoffs “from the management and staff ranks in all divisions.” He does not say which papers or how many managers; 29 newsroom employees will be laid off.
Source: Paper Cuts tip
Vallejo Times-Herald: 3
Vallejo, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 27, 2008
An internal memo said a copy editor and two office assistants were laid off.
Source: Paper Cuts tip
Bay Area News Group East: Unknown
California
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 27, 2008
A memo from Publisher John Armstrong warns of layoffs “from the management and staff ranks in all divisions.” He does not say which papers or how many managers; 29 newsroom employees will be laid off.
Source: Paper Cuts tip
Star-Banner: 6
Ocala, Fla.
Owner: The New York Times Co.
Date: June 27, 2008
Half of the advertising production staff was laid off. The media group’s ad production is consolidating and moving to Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Source: Editor & Publisher
Portland Press Herald: 36 *
Portland, Maine
Owner: The Seattle Times Co.
Date: June 2, 2008
Updated: June 26, 2008
The paper will close four bureaus and cut 36 jobs: 25 through buyouts, six through layoffs. Five vacant positions will not be filled.
Source: Associated Press/The Providence Journal; SeattleTimes via Fading to Black
The Star Press: 1
Muncie, Ind.
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Date: June 26, 2008
The paper laid off its circulation director.
Source: Gannett Blog
