Monday, October 19, 2009

New York Times to slash 100 newsroom jobs

There's a whole lot of this going around.


The New York Times said Monday it will cut 100 newsroom jobs and an unspecified number elsewhere amid industrywide declines in advertising revenue.

The Times will offer voluntary buyouts at first but will resort to layoffs if it cannot meet the targets.


"I hope that won't happen, but it might," Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote in a memo to staff.


The Times, flagship of The New York Times Co., cut its newsroom work force by 100 positions last year mostly through buyouts, but Keller said then that the newspaper had to make a "relatively small" number of involuntary cuts to meet that target.





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7 comments:

John Altevogt said...

Now this is a blow to America's enemies. Yesss baby.

Anonymous said...

Yes! I can hear the “Wooosh” of the great lib toilet flushing!

Dave D. said...

..Maybe now they won't have enough reporters to publish the military secrets that put our troops and our country at risk.

Anonymous said...

Well, we're better off than you small time operators. We get 3 weeks for every year of service! hahahha

John Altevogt said...

8:18. You're still out of a job in a profession that's glutted. Brag about that.

Anonymous said...

100 fewer fringe leftoids to pollute American minds.

Anonymous said...

I don't feel any sympathy for those being blown out at the NY Times. That is not a real newspaper, just a mouthpiece for liberalism and Obama policy. If the Times folds, I'm having a party.