The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, plans to cut 10 positions, according to a memo posted on the Romenesko journalism blog on Wednesday and confirmed by a source at the paper who is not authorized to speak for the paper and declined to be identified.
The Blethen family owns 50.5 percent of the Times. McClatchy, which publishes the Miami Herald and the Sacramento Bee, owns the rest.
Poynter Online:
The plan for the Tribune-owned paper in Allentown, Pa. includes:
* Completing creation of a universal news desk begun in 2007
* Investing in more than 40 video cameras to be deployed this month in the newsroom
* Creating three new positions to help build print and online audience
* Eliminating 10 positions
Editor Ardith Hilliard writes in a memo: "The plan will reduce editorial costs. Part of achieving this is job elimination. The pain of losing friends and colleagues who have contributed so much should never be pushed aside with platitudes. But this newsroom repeatedly has proven that it can absorb change, no matter how difficult."
