Butte, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: Jan. 27, 2009
2 full-time and 4 part-time employees were laid off. Customer service will be outsourced to a call center in Billings, Mont.
Source: The Montana Standard
The Montana Standard: 6
Billings Gazette: 8
Billings, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date effective: Jan. 12, 2009
4 full-time and 4 part-time employees were laid off: 2 from the newsroom, 1 in circulation, 2 in advertising and 3 in production.
Source: Billings Gazette via Paper Cuts tip
Helena Independent-Record: 5
Helena, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: Sept. 11, 2008
5 employees were laid off.
Source: The Billings Gazette
The Montana Standard: 7
Butte, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: Sept. 11, 2008
7 employees were laid off.
Source: The Billings Gazette
Billings Gazette: 9
Billings, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: Sept. 9, 2008
7 full-time and 2 part-time employees were laid off. A zoned edition also was eliminated.
Source: Billings Gazette via Paper Cuts tip; New West
Ravalli Republic: 6
Hamilton, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: Sept. 5, 2008
3 full-time and 3 part-time employees were laid off.
Source: via Fading to Black
Missoulian: 7
Missoula, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: Aug. 27, 2008
4 full-time and 3 part-time employees were laid off.
Source: Missoulian
Bozeman Daily Chronicle: 9
Bozeman, Mont.
Owner: Pioneer Newspapers Inc.
Date: July 30, 2008
Six full-time and three part-time employees will be laid off. Three of those employees will be from the newsroom.
Source: Forbes
Billings Gazette: 1
Billings, Mont.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Date: May 31, 2008
The one-reporter Washington, D.C., bureau shared by six papers was closed.
Source: Billings Gazette via Paper Cuts tip
