Layoffs Coming At USA TODAY?

According to Gannett Blog, USA TODAY is reorganizing.

Details were not forthcoming in last Thursday’s meeting between publisher Dave Hunke and the paper’s staff, writes blogger Jim Hopkins.

According to anonymous commenters on Hopkins’ blog (who are often right, but take with a grain of salt), Hunke said that there would be no more furloughs or pay freezes, but that layoffs were in the works and USA TODAY would become a smaller paper.

Again, no timetable for when this is happening, but Gannett will be reporting its second-quarter earnings in mid-July, and it’ll do its 2011 budget in August, so likely big news is coming in the next six to eight weeks.

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