Portland, Ore.
Owner: Advance Publications
Announced: Sept. 23, 2009
Effective: Nov. 9, 2009

Buyouts are being offered. In a letter to employees, Publisher Patrick Stickel said: “If a significant number of you accept the offer it could minimize or eliminate the need for layoffs down the line.”
At least 25 full-time and 6 part-time employees accepted or said they were planning to accept the buyout offer. Additional employees may have accepted the buyout offer before the Nov. 9 deadline.
Source: The Oregonian; Oregon Media Central

* Updated Nov. 14, 2009, with the number of employees who accepted the buyout offer.

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Eugene, Ore.
Owner: Guard Publishing Co.
Effective: Aug. 17, 2009

“The equivalent of 16 full-time positions” were cut. Some were part-time positions, some were open positions, so I’m not yet sure how many people were laid off.
Source: The Register-Guard

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Portland, Ore.
Owner: Pamplin Media Group
Effective: July 21, 2009

Two features reporters were laid off. A sports reporter also was reassigned to news; the managing editor resigned following the layoffs.
Source: Portland Business Journal

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Salem, Ore.
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Effective: July 9, 2009

“A handful of jobs” will be cut.
8 employees were laid off.
Sources: Oregon Media Central; Statesman Journal

* Updated July 15, 2009, with the number of employees who were laid off.

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Eugene, Ore.
Owner: Guard Publishing Co.
Effective: June 8, 2009

13 full-time and 8 part-time employees were laid off.
Source: The Register-Guard

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Lincoln City, Ore.
Owner: Country Media Inc.
Effective: April 1, 2009

3 part-time employee were laid off.
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Portland, Ore.
Owner: Advance Publications
Announced: March 23, 2009

Some part-time news and production employees will be laid off; the number of employees was not released.
9 part-time press operators and 24 part-time news employees were laid off.
Source: The Oregonian via @mfriesen

* Updated March 24, 2009, after the Oregonian updated its story.

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Roseburg, Ore.
Owner: Swift Communications Inc.
Effective: 2008

Layoffs and attrition cut the newsroom by 20 percent in the last year. Pressroom and distribution employees have been laid off too.
Source: Paper Cuts tip

Albany, Ore.
Owner: Lee Enterprises
Effective: Feb. 26, 2009

3 receptionists were laid off from Lee’s Albany Democrat-Herald, Corvallis Gazette-Times and Lebanon Express in Oregon.
Source: Lee Watch via Paper Cuts tip

Hillsboro, Ore.
Owner: Advance Publications
Effective: October 2008

3 employees were laid off. An open position was eliminated.
Source: Paper Cuts tip