In a memo to Star Tribune employees Monday, publisher Chris Harte said the newspaper will lay off 58 people, most of them in circulation, as revenue continues to fall faster than expected. That is 3 percent of the paper's workforce. (The smart people at McClatchy bought the Star Tribune in 1998 for $1.2 billion, and unloaded it eight years later for $530 million.)
Meanwhile, employees at McClatchy's News & Observer in Raleigh told a blogger that the number of press operators working certain shifts had been reduced by 50 percent or more.
