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Sep 16, 2008 10:42 pm US/Eastern
Miami Herald Cuts 10% Of Workforce
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Three months after publicizing plans to cut 250 positions, the Miami Herald Media Company has announced it will cut another 10 percent of the remaining workforce.
According to Miami Herald President and Publican David Landsberg, eighty employees, both full- and part-time, will be asked to leave the company. Almost forty vacant positions will be eliminated.
In a memo Tuesday, Landsberg told employees that the company will ask for volunteers to accept a severance package and leave. Some of the cuts will be involuntary layoffs.
23 positions will be cut from the Miami Herald newsroom. That leaves just 275 people staffing the journalism aspect of the paper. Still, Landsberg and Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal say the changes will be "pretty much invisible" to readers.
The cuts at the Herald are part of a national plan by The McClatchy Company, the Miami Herald's parent company, to cut its workforce by roughly 1,150 full-time equivalent positions. The move is an effort to cuts costs to pay off debts.
The entire print journalism industry has taken a beating. Increased competition from the Internet, an economic slowdown and the faltering real estate market are teaming up to cause major problems for the industry.
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