The Kansas City Star will lay off about 30 employees in addition to roughly that many who have accepted the newspaper’s most recent early-buyout offer, Publisher Mark Zieman told employees in an internal e-mail Wednesday.
Tracy Hazen, The Star’s director of marketing, said she didn’t know how many of the layoffs announced Wednesday were in the newsroom or what the newspaper’s current employee count is. As of May 16, The Star had 1,347 employees, of whom 1,037 were full time and 290 worked in the newsroom. The newspaper said Aug. 25 that 24 employees had taken a voluntary buyout offer in January.
Earlier reports said the Star would cut 17 positions.
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Update 9/18: The total number of employees leaving the Kansas City Star is 65.
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Is that a total for the KC Star or is that just for the newsroom? That's not even close to 10%. 26 took the buyout and left on September 12th and with 17 more that is a total of 43 and they have more than a 1000 full time and close to 300 part time......interesting?
This is confirmed by KC Star 30 cut today. Won't say what departments. This is post on the Kansas City Business Journal.
Tracy Hazen speaks for the KC Star but knows nothing...not what departments the cuts came from....not the total Star employee count.....and we wonder why McClatchy is in trouble.
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