Revolving Door Newsletter: 07.11.08
Chicago Trib Cuts; Meredith Staff Shakeup
July 11, 2008
The axe began
falling at Tribune Co.'s flagship paper this week as part of company-wide staff layoffs.
The Chicago Tribune will eliminate 80 of 578 newsroom jobs by the end of August, and cut its newshole by 13-14 percent each week... With
Marcus Brauchli patrolling The Washington Post's sidelines until September 8, the day he's invested as the paper's next executive editor, the speculation is mounting about what he'll do first. Near the top of the list: merge the newspaper's online newsroom with the print one, integrating roughly 100 journalists and 300 employees into the flow of newsgathering. The ...
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