NY Times made 'involuntary' newsroom staff cuts: report

[UpInArms]

Source: CBS Marketwatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The New York Times (NYT: 19.48, -0.32, -1.6%) said Wednesday it had to make an unspecified number of involuntary cuts to its newsroom staff in a bid to meet its goal of reducing head count by 100, the Associated Press reported. Although most of the reduction came from staff accepting buyout offers, the newspaper still had to make involuntary cuts to meet its target, Executive Editor Bill Keller said in a memo to staff, according to the news agency. The newspaper will not disclose the number of people it had laid off.

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perhaps it they had just cut Judith Miller and Elisabeth Bumiller earlier :think:

[Sam Ervin jret]

1. "Involuntary staff cuts", psst quiet! What ever you do. Don't say L-A-Y-O-F-F-S

Do you want our SLOW down, our rough period, our economic period of non-growth and involuntary job deletions to turn into a

r-e-c-e-s-s-i-o-n?

No! Don't read it out loud! Don't say THE WORD. You'll make the president cry and he'll need to get his dictionary out to redefine his psychopathic delusional reality.

[NashVegas]

2. The Editor in Chief of the LA Times Quit His Job, Rather Than Do That

Working in media is fucking nuts right now. Creative people, even the ones who aren't getting canned, are leaving in droves.