By: E&P Staff The twice-weekly Portland (Ore.) Tribune will lay off an undisclosed number of employees when it cuts its frequency to once a week starting May 8, Tribune President Steve Clark announced Friday.
In a column on the paper's Web site, Clark said the paper is making the move to weekly publication for environmental and economic reasons.
"We become even more environmentally sensitive by launching the nation's most sustainable daily newspaper in America's most sustainable community," he wrote. "We act in recognition of current U.S. economics, which are leading the nation toward recession with not only higher fuel and food prices, but also an impending shortage of paper products such as newsprint."
Clark said on Monday May 5, the Tribune is launching a "more complete" daily newspaper on the Web, with expanded news coverage, columns, editorials, and interactive puzzles.
"In moving to a once a week print newspaper and online daily, we will employ fewer people in some departments," Clark wrote, though he did not say how many employees and in which departments.
The Tribune launched in February 2001, taking on The Oregonian, the state's largest daily, and the well-respected Willamette Week.
"We fully expect that there will be those who will criticize our strategy," Clark wrote. "Through the years, we have routinely been scorned by some, including bloggers who are prone to vitriolic negativity. Other comments may come from competitors such as Willamette Week -- which makes a practice of throwing stones at us and others, but rarely praise."
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