Riverside, Calif.
Owner: A.H. Belo Corp.
Effective: Oct. 20, 2010

Eleven pressroom employees, a photo technician and an editorial assistant were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Gary Scott

Brockton, Mass.
Owner: GateHouse Media Inc.
Date: Oct. 22, 2010

Advertising design was outsourced; an unknown number of employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Quincy, Mass.
Owner: GateHouse Media Inc.
Date: Oct. 22, 2010

Advertising design was outsourced; an unknown number of employees were laid off. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Lakeland, Fla.
Owner: New York Times Co.
Date: October 2010

The company’s customer service and advertising call center housed at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., has closed. Do you know more? Leave a comment or send me an email: newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com. Emailed tips are anonymous.
Source: The Ledger via Paper Cuts tip

York, S.C.
Owner: The McClatchy Co.
Effective: Oct. 13, 2010

The editor was laid off. A McClatchy general manager assumed the role.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Richmond, Mo.
Owner:
Effective: Oct. 18, 2010

The daily paper has cuts its print frequency from daily to twice a week. “We have been resisting this change for years, although virtually every newspaper in smaller markets like ours made the jump to a less-than-daily print cycle years ago,” publisher JoEllen Black said in a statement. The paper continues to publish breaking news, sports and obituaries daily on its website.
Source: Editor & Publisher

Heyworth, Farmer City and LeRoy, Ill.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: Oct. 27, 2010

The three biweekly weekly papers have closed; company officials said they were no longer profitable. “It came down to the financial sustainability of the products and we felt we could more effectively serve our readers in those three communities with The Pantagraph,” said Barry Winterland, general manager of Pantagraph Publishing Co., which is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Pantagraph is in Bloomington, Ill. It is unknown how many employees were laid off.
Source: The Pantagraph

Correction: The Heyworth Star, Farmer City Journal and LeRoy Journal were weekly papers, not biweekly as originally stated. (11.07.10)

Update: Per a comment below, at least four employees were laid off: the Heyworth Star and LeRoy Journal editors and two Farmer City Journal employees. (11.07.10)

Chicago
Owner: Sun-Times Media Group
Effective: Oct. 29, 2010

Days after announcing layoffs at Sun-Times Media newspapers, spokeswoman Tammy Chase was laid off. At least four editorial employees were laid off earlier in October; Sun-Times officials refuse to say how many. “That’s a number I’m not prepared to share,” Sun-Times chief executive Jeremy Halbreich told the Chicago Tribune. “A lot of that is, by virtue of being a private company, we don’t feel the need to be publicizing those things. … Any time you do this kind of stuff, you always do it as invisible to the consumer as possible.”

Do you know of additional layoffs? Leave a comment or e-mail me at newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com.
Source: Chicago Reader and Chicago Tribune

Phoenicia, N.Y.
Owner: Brian Powers
Effective: Oct. 7, 2010

The biweekly papers have closed. “When newspapers die, there’s no headstone to mark their passing,” Watershed Post editor Lissa Harris wrote in a tribute to the Times. “But I’d like to imagine that somewhere in the Catskill Mountains, in a clearing on a hillside ringed with a crumbling stone wall, there’s a little plot where mourning readers can pay their respects.”
Source: The New York Times and Watershed Post

Naperville, Ill.
Owner: Sun-Times Media Group
Effective: Oct. 27, 2010

At least one reporter was laid off. Do you know of other layoffs? Leave a comment or e-mail me at newspaperlayoffs@gmail.com.
Source: Paper Cuts tips

Update: A sports editor also was laid off. (07.16.11)
Source: Paper Cuts tip