By: The union representing the editorial staff of The Commercial Appeal of Memphis says the newspaper has laid off 19 newsroom employees, including its editorial cartoonist.
Mark Watson, local president of The Newspaper Guild in Memphis, said Friday that The Commercial Appeal laid off a total of 27 employees represented by the union. Watson was among those let go.
The newsroom layoffs included eight reporters, three photographers, three copy editors and Bill Day, the newspaper's sole editorial cartoonist.
Day said his work will continue to be distributed by the United Feature Syndicate.
Calls to Editor Chris Peck were not immediately returned.
The layoffs are part of cuts announced last month by the newspaper's parent company, E.W. Scripps Co.
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