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New York Times To Slash Newsroom Staff
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 19, 2009
Modified Oct 22, 2009
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The New York Times announced today that it will cut 100 newsroom jobs—about 8 percent of the total—by year's end. In a memo to the news room, executive editor Bill Keller said, "Like you, I yearn for the day when we can do our jobs without looking over our shoulders for economic thunderstorms." Employees already took a 5 percent pay cut for most of this year, which was intended to avoid layoffs.
The Times’s news department peaked at more than 1,330 employees before the last round of cuts; the department currently employs 1,250, nearly double the number employed in newsrooms at other major American newspapers.
Like most other print media outlets, the paper of record has suffered a massive drop in ad revenue, as a drying trickle of ad dollars is increasingly siphoned off by online media. The newsroom cut was first reported by the New York Times, then laboriously copied and pasted here on Gothamist.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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