Buyouts detailed last month on Bob Norman’s blog, the Daily Pulp, called for two percent company-wide. But that’s nothing compared to what’s likely to happen here. Rumors have been swirling around the newsroom for the last two or three weeks that McClatchy is considering a 10 to 15 percent cutback in Miami and Broward – which could mean as many as 50 members of the newsroom staff – which is somewhere around 320 – according to sources familiar with the budgets.
That would put the Herald nearer to the Sacramento Bee, McClatchy’s former flagship, the sources say.
At least one staff member has approached Herald editor Anders Gyllenhaal with the idea – and he responded noncommittally. “He really didn’t know what to say,” the Herald staff member recalls.
Bob Norman says he has heard the same thing:
This jibes with what I've been hearing. One veteran Herald writer reiterated that 15 percent was the number -- which he or she said could mean 40 buyouts or layoffs. I've also heard as much as 100. The Sun-Sentinel, meanwhile, is supposedly getting spared layoffs for now, but we'll see. Here's how the Herald source described the newsroom right now:Stay tuned as developments unfold.
"The mood is somewhere between funeral and panic," the source said this morning. "These are not rumors that we’re going to have buyouts and layoffs, that’s a fact. It’s just a matter of how many and who..."
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Buyouts offered to 100 at McClatchy's Modesto Bee
Seattle Times cuts 125 jobs
Sacramento Bee offers buyouts to some employees
