By: E&P Staff Newsday in Melville, N.Y., yesterday dismissed 72 employees and announced that 40 additional vacant jobs will be eliminated. Meanwhile, another Tribune Co. paper, The Morning-Call in Allentown, Pa., said it will end publication of Chronicle Newspapers, its chain of 11 weekly community papers, as part of cost-cutting measures.
The Allentown newspaper will permanently lay off about 5% percent of its workers, spokeswoman Vicki Mayk said, or almost 50 of The Morning Call's work force of 950.
At Newsday, no "news gathering personnel" were affected by yesterday's announcement, according to a memo to employees from publisher Timothy P. Knight on Thursday. But this comes just a month after 49 newsroom staffers accepted buyouts.
"Today's changes are unfortunate, but necessary to position Newsday to pursue opportunities with confidence," Knight wrote. "I know this kind of change is not easy."
He said the newspaper also is outsourcing its mailroom operations.
According to an article in the paper this morning, "Many of Newsday's city-based reporters have been transferred to its Melville headquarters. This week, the paper began moving all but one of its Queens-based reporters and other staff to either its Manhattan or Melville offices."
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune said it was
cutting 28 editorial jobs, just the latest of hundreds of job losses at Tribune papers in the past month, and
shutting down its historic New City News Service.
E&P is keeping a
running tally of newspaper job cuts from 2005 here, and the total for the year is now over 2,000.
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