Newspaper Merger Means Layoffs at 'Daily Southtown'

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By: The Sun-Times Media Group is laying off 20 full-time and eleven part-time workers from the editorial staff of the Daily Southtown in Tinley Park.

Sun-Times Media Group spokeswoman Tammy Chase says the layoffs are the result of the merger of the Southtown with the twice-weekly Star publications. She says the combined new daily newspaper will be called the SouthtownStar and will begin publication November 18th.

Chase says the laid-off workers will be employed until the end of the year and that the full-timers will be given severance pay.

She says the two publications currently have a combined full-time editorial staff of approximately 100, plus some 15 part-timers.

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