Layoffs Hit the Times-Picayune and NOLA Media Group

Twenty-nine full-time newsroom positions are being cut at NOLA Media Group, which operates the New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com, the company announced Thursday.

The cuts are part of an ongoing consolidation strategy implemented by the Advance-owned company and come just days after the Times Picayune announced that its longtime editor, Jim Amoss, was stepping down. In an announcement, NOLA Media Group said the company would restructure its newsroom into teams focusing on politics, criminal justice, city and suburb issues, sports, life and culture and photojournalism.