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The Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal cut 13 jobs Monday and announced another 10 open positions would not be filled as part of 'a continuing effort to reduce costs in a weak [...]

Media General Inc.'s Florida Communications Group (FCG) on Monday laid off 53 employees at The Tampa Tribune and its media siblings in the market. FCG also ordered an additional three [...]

Representing 6% of its work force, two-dozen Boston Herald jobs will be eliminated, most on the business side, according to the paper. The paper reported that the cuts came in [...]

Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, says the paper's 5% pay cut and plans for 10 furlough days for all employees will not result in decreased news [...]

Members of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to approve a cost-cutting package of salary cuts, layoffs and buyouts expected to save The Buffalo (N.Y.) News about $3 [...]

The Daily Herald, Illinois' third-largest newspaper, has eliminated 24 jobs and is ordering a 5% reduction in salaries, according to a memo distributed to employees. Until 2007, the family-owned Paddock [...]

At least one newspaper is making the wave of forced furloughs go down a little easier with an option for those who can't afford the unpaid time off to skip [...]

Nearly a year after losing 100 newsroom staffers to buyouts, The Washington Post is reportedly at it again, offering a buyout package that is apparently more limited in its pool [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on its Web site today that it will slash its full-time news staff by about 90 people -- nearly 30% -- in its continued effort to [...]

The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News has cut 10 sales positions, citing 'changing market conditions.' The laid-off employees are receiving severance packages, Rob Rohr, the paper's vice president for sales, said [...]

Newspaper publisher Gannett is forcing most of its workers to take another week of unpaid leave before July. The furloughs spelled out Monday in a company memo are being imposed [...]

The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader on Monday announced it is laying off 49 full-time and four part-time employees throughout the paper, in an effort to cut costs. The layoffs represent about [...]

Freedom Communications, which owns The Orange County (Calif.) Register, is planning to implement one-week furloughs for all but the most recently hired employees across its many daily and weekly papers, [...]

Unionized pressmen at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis have agreed to some 24 layoffs and unspecified salary cuts, according to Minnpost.com. The online news outlet reported the deal was approved [...]

More papers may curtail home delivery Michigan's Booth newspaper chain may be taking a cue from Detroit's dailies and reportedly is about to unroll a plan this week that includes [...]

The publisher of the Idaho Statesman says the newspaper is laying off 25 employees and imposing salary cuts in another round of cost cutting. At least one Boise broadcaster also [...]

Pearson LLC CEO Marjorie Pearson is expected to hear an earful from Financial Times journalists in Britain Friday at a staff briefing. The FT newsroom employees are already set to [...]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that its owner, Hearst Corp., has made offers to some staffers to participate in an online-only version of the newspaper. The paper says an unspecified number [...]

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock is the latest daily paper to institute unpaid furloughs in an effort to cut costs, the paper reported. In order to meet a 5% [...]

A South Carolina newspaper has announced it will eliminate 20 positions and reduce pay and work hours for its remaining staffers. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach announced Monday that [...]

The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists today called for 'a public discussion -- at the earliest date possible -- of the Hearst Corporation's threat to make [...]

The Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio, will lay off 45 newsroom employees early next month, the newspaper announced late Monday. 'These are challenging times for many industries, including the newspaper industry,' [...]

A novel approach to the two newspapers, owned by the same entity, in Philadelphia was announced today: The smaller Philadelphia Daily News will not fold but appear as an 'edition' [...]

For all its downsizing, the newsroom has yet to see its principal reporting and editing functions outsourced. The technology on which it relies, however, may be ripe for removal, as [...]

In a front-page note to readers today, the publisher and editor of The Denver Post pledged to serve both readers and advertisers in these 'challenging economic times.' The Post became [...]

A Minnesota jobs program has provided $238,000 to two daily papers and a local journalism school to help improve the newspapers' Internet abilities. The Minnesota Job Skills Partnership program gave [...]

The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk is laying off 30 more employees, including six from the newsroom, while suspending print publication of a free arts and entertainment weekly and folding a monthly [...]

The Guardian Media Group has introduced a pay freeze this year in response to the current economic climate. The freeze will only affect GMG's wholly owned businesses, not the partly [...]

The Sacramento Unit of the California Media Workers Guild is asking McClatchy Chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt to take a pay cut. 'We care about this company. We care about [...]

Richmond, Va.-based Media General Inc. -- which publishes metros in the some of the markets that were hit the earliest and the hardest by the contracting economy -- on Wednesday [...]

Media General Inc. has experienced nearly every woe that can be visited on a media company. It was on the bleeding-edge of the recession before there was a recession. Its [...]

The Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal reported Wednesday that it has laid off nine employees in the news department while it continues negotiations with a possible buyer. This was the second [...]

A.H. Belo Corp., publisher of The Dallas Morning News and The Providence (R.I.) Journal, is laying off another 500 people and cutting expenses by $50 million before the end of [...]

The Tribune Co. has instituted a salary freeze for all non-union employees, according to a memo first posted on the Broward-Palm Beach (Fla.) New Times' Web site. Tribune chief administrative [...]

Just months after losing more than 150 newsroom staffers in a hard-hitting buyout, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. is poised to replace some of the departed by contracting with a [...]

North Jersey Media Group, which owns The Record of Hackensack, N.J., and the Herald News of West Paterson, N.J., is dropping its 401(k) matching benefit, according to a memo issued [...]

In a move typical of the industry today, the Houston Chronicle is reportedly about to cut 'at least' 10% of its staff positions. The local site, The Brazoport News, published [...]

Publisher Larry Corvi says the economic downturn has finally reached into the Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix's neck of the woods, forcing the layoffs of eight people -- about 9% of the [...]

The Chicago Tribune fired at least 10 newsroom employee Thursday, including a Pulitzer Prize winner and the correspondents in the Middle East and Rome. According to an account in the [...]

Stephens Media LLC, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 11 other dailies, has told employees it stopped matching their 401(k) retirement plan contributions at the end of January. It [...]

North Dakota's largest newspaper said it has eliminated 21 jobs, or 9 percent of its work force, because of declining advertising revenue. 'Like all businesses, we are not immune to [...]

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin has announced 17 newsroom layoffs, a wage freeze -- and conversion from broadsheet to tabloid. Citing the need to deal with the recession, the newspaper announced the [...]

MediaNews Group Inc. said Friday that employees at its New Mexico and Texas newspapers have been asked to take one-week furloughs to avoid layoffs. Senior Vice President of Operations Tony [...]

In a memo to employees Friday, Chicago Tribune Media Group CEO Tony Hunter said there will be more job reductions at the flagship Trib and siblings such as RedEye as [...]

Hearst Newspapers Thursday announced management changes as part of its so-called '100 Days of Change' initiative, 'aimed at challenging traditional thinking across Hearst Newspapers in order to retool the business [...]

The St. Petersburg Times has joined the ranks of many other papers announcing pay freezes and suspension of 401-1 matches. Other papers have also mandated unpaid furloughs, but not at [...]

Tribune Co., which had said it intended to stop paying deferred compensation and other payments to former employees, said it won verbal approval Tuesday from U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware [...]

Unpaid one-week furloughs that have already struck MediaNews Group dailies in Californian may be heading east as one of the chain's Pennsylvania papers confirms plans for the mandatory week off [...]

Just two weeks after Gannett instituted a mandatory one-week furlough for all employees, a major regional chain of MediaNews Group is doing the same. The Bay Area News Group-East Bay, [...]