Will the Chicago Sun-Times make cuts in its workforce?
Seattle Times, Chicago Sun-Times Face Job Cuts, Shrinking Pages Published on January 09, 2008 The Chicago Sun-Times has shrunk its width by one inch to save on newsprint costs, and The Seattle Times has announced plans to reduce its width by an inch come 2009. Both papers are laying off employees. The Seattle Times says it will lay off 17 – none of them newsroom employees. The Chicago Sun-Times has announced that it is whittling down newsroom staff by 19 percent, the greatest newsroom decrease in recent memory. The Seattle paper announced that it needs to cut $27 million to ensure stability in 2008. The job cuts and other cost-saving measures – such as no longer publishing a Sunday tabloid news section for Southeast King County readers, consolidating some weekday and Sunday features sections, and reducing the paper’s width – will save $21 million. Liz Brown, administrative officer of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, wrote in a blog posting, “The fact The Times is not slashing its
