Carpenter Media Group has a ‘pattern’ of acquisitions and layoffs, union alleges

The company went from a relative unknown to the sixth-largest newspaper owner in the country over the past year

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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser will lay off six editorial employees — 20% of the newsroom — the paper’s union announced Wednesday. The cuts include the paper’s remaining staff photographers, who covered the Maui wildfires.

The layoffs are the latest in a string executed by owner Carpenter Media Group at its papers this year. The company, based in the Deep South, went from being relatively unknown to becoming the sixth-largest newspaper owner in the country over the past year. During that time, the chain laid off dozens of workers in what the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Guild described as a “pattern” of acquisitions and subsequent layoffs.

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