The Bee is buying out 87 employees, or about 7 percent of its work force, the newspaper said today.
The voluntary buyouts include 23 newsroom employees, or nearly 10 percent of the news staff.
It's not clear whether the buyouts mark the end of cutbacks at The Bee, which, like nearly every newspaper in America, is fighting a significant downturn in revenue. Publisher and President Cheryl Dell said she won't know for another week or two whether there were enough buyouts to avert a second round of layoffs. The Bee eliminated 86 jobs in June, part of a nationwide 10 percent, across-the-board cutback affecting all papers owned by The McClatchy Co.
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The reason the BEE won't say if 87 employees taking the buyout is enough and it will take a week or two to know THEY HAVE TO GET THE FIGURES FROM ALL THE OTHER PAPERS.
To McClatchy Watch. This would be a kick. List each newspaper that has had a buyout/layoff have the former employee list what paper he or she worked at and the job they did. Here's the fun also have them list their wages. Could this be fun or what? We might even find some legal stuff in here. cddqviy
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