Tampa Tribune plans to cut one-fifth of newsroom
TAMPA, Fla. —
The Tampa Tribune plans to lay off 11 newsroom employees this week and one more 10 by betimes fall as part of a one-fifth cut in the news staff taking place this summer.
Along with the 29 race who took willing buyouts and tendered resignations, the cuts announced Tuesday determination leave the Tribune with a news staff of about 200, the paper said Wednesday.
The do job-work cuts, part of a corporate solution announced in May, are the latest sign of to what degree the newspaper industry is being hurt by a weakened economy and the emergence of the Internet inner reality of the kind which an alternative medium for advertising.
“You never want to gain good people go away,” uttered Denise Palmer, Tribune publisher and president. “But I also know you have to work within the revenue you bring in.”
On Wednesday, the Journal Sentinel newspaper in Milwaukee announced it will cut all over 10 percent of its stay of 1,300 due to the slump in ad sales affecting the entire newspaper industry, which has seen hundreds of layoffs like wary advertisers cut back on ads and newspaper costs soar. Last week alone, six major papers announced layoffs totaling relative to 900 jobs.
Media General Inc., the Tampa Tribune’s parent copartnership, is reducing its entire work might by nearly 11 percent. Between 250 and 260 jobs are being cut at the Tribune, WFLA-TV, TBO.com, Centro Grupo de Comunicacion and several smaller newspapers in Florida.
WFLA reported it would divide 10 recent accounts positions by the end of the year.
Richmond, Va.-based Media General, which also publishes the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, expects annual savings of $40 million from the cuts, which began in early 2007.
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