On October 20, 2009
The New York Times Cuts 100; Adds Bay Area Section
The New York Times launched a new two-page section called “The Bay Area” this past week, and as I was preparing to critique it yesterday, the news broke that the troubled newspaper company will be eliminating another 100 jobs (or 8 percent) from its newsroom between now and the end of this year. The Times also said recently that it has ended efforts to sell off the Boston Globe, which either means that the deep cuts enforced at that paper have been sufficient to slow down its massive flow of losses, or that no one offered The Times a decent price for the property — or both. In his memo announcing the impending layoffs in Manhattan yesterday, Executive Editor Bill…
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