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HARTFORD, Conn. The Hartford Courant, struggling with other Tribune Co. newspapers with bankruptcy, massive debt and an industrywide decline in advertising, says it will eliminate 100 jobs this week, primarily through layoffs.

The cuts will include about 30 newsroom employees. That brings the news staff to 135, or just more than half the newspaper employed last year.

The newspaper announced the cuts Wednesday on its Web site.

Publisher Stephen D. Carver says layoffs also include some workers at a chain of alternative weeklies in Connecticut and the company's direct mail business, Valu Mail.

Tribune, which owns The Courant, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December.

Carver says this week's layoffs are forced by local business conditions, rather than the bankruptcy.