St. Louis, Mo.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: June 24, 2011

Twenty-three production, IT and marketing employees were laid off. Managers gave no reason for the layoffs, and did not issue a company memo as they have with previous layoffs. An additional five newsroom employees accepted buyout offers: three copy editors, one designer and one reporter. The paper did not report the buyouts in its story about the layoffs.
Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Paper Cuts tips

Full disclosure: I work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Coos Bay, Ore.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: June 17, 2011

One mailroom employee was laid off. Have there been more layoffs? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Full disclosure: I work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which also is owned by Lee Enterprises.

Pasadena, Calif.; West Covina, Calif.; Whittier, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Date: June 24, 2011

At least five San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group newsroom employees were laid off: three copy editors, one photographer and a Pasadena Star-News city editor. Two more newsroom employees also may have been laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gary Scott and Paper Cuts tip

Cincinnati
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: June 21, 2011

As part of 700 cuts across Gannett, a tip to Gannett Blog reports 15 newsroom employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gannett Blog

Update: Gannett Blog now reports 16 employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous. (08.01.11)
Source: Gannett Blog

Monroe, La.
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: Aug. 1, 2011

Printing will be outsourced to The Times in Shreveport, La.; 12 full-time and 15 part-time employees will be laid off. A story on the Times’ website said new positions will be added in Shreveport. Gannett Blog reports that as of December 2010, 68 percent of Gannett’s 82 U.S. newspapers had moved printing off-site.
Source: Gannett Blog

Asheville, N.C.
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: May 10, 2011

Twelve of the paper’s 47 newsroom employees are being laid off, according to a tip at Gannett Blog. Some employees were required to reapply for their positions. Do you know any details? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gannett Blog

Update: The Gannett Blog layoff tally has been updated with 24 layoffs at the Citizen-Times. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email. (08.08.11)
Source: Gannett Blog

Los Angeles
Owner: Tribune Co.
Effective: June 29, 2011

The alt-weekly published by the Los Angeles Times has closed. Six employees are listed in the paper’s masthead; a company memo said employees would “transition into similiar roles elsewhere in the company.”
Source: LA Observed

Los Angeles
Owner: MediaNews Group
Effective: June 28, 2011

A circulation employee was laid off.
Source: Gary Scott

San Jose, Calif.
Owner: MediaNews Group
Effective: December 2010

Two part-time sales assistants were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: San Francisco Peninsula Press Club

Portland, Ore.
Owner: Advance Publications
Effective: June 14, 2011

Willamette Week reports as many as 38 employees were laid off. In a statement sent to the weekly paper, Oregonian publisher N. Christian Anderson III said newsroom positions were not cut: “We did eliminate some positions in our company today. They were in production, circulation, finance and advertising support. They are part of our continuing effort to find efficiencies in our operations as we strengthen our financial performance.” Anderson would not confirm how many employees were laid off.

Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Willamette Week via Gary Scott