New York Times Plans Layoffs "Within The Core Newsroom"

New York Observer:

The New York Times announced that it's all but a done deal that the paper will have to layoff staffers in the newsroom.

The drop-dead deadline is fast approaching for the staffers in The New York Times newsroom to raise their hand and volunteer for a buyout. An internal memo from the paper's assistant managing editor, Bill Schmidt, just went out and said that "we expect" that the buyout numbers aren't looking good and that for the first time the paper will be forced to cut the newsroom through layoffs.

"While layoffs have become all too common across our industry, this is the first time the newsroom as a whole has confronted that blunt reality, and we approach it with a heavy heart," he said in the e-mail.

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Comments

[swift goat pet for truth]

06:38 AM on 04/16/2008

They weren't doing any reporting anyway.

They are going to be replaced by a rubber stamp provided to the management by the Bush Administration.

[Tator]

06:06 AM on 04/16/2008

Cool. I await the day this Communist Anti-American rag goes under.

[swift goat pet for truth]

09:42 PM on 04/16/2008

Cool. I await the day this Neocon enabling Bush certifying right wing Anti-American rag goes under.

[vandegrasse]

03:21 AM on 04/16/2008

Lose Kristol!

[NewRiver]

01:37 AM on 04/16/2008

The New York Times does news? Wow, who knew...

[Tariqahmed]

11:13 PM on 04/15/2008

NYT WAS the world renouned newspaper: read across the spectrum of people.
George Bush administration plundered NYT free journalism and forced it to publish fictious news. After reading fictious news , most readers were dismayed and stop looking forward to the next day newspaper. NYT Weely Magazine section UNETHICALLY advertised Golan Heights and other occupied historical sites in Israel as best places to travel.
In true world you cannot win the hearts and mind doing these.
SHAME ON YOU NYT ADMINISTRATION.

[gevan]

10:13 PM on 04/15/2008

Are the layed off newsroom staffers bitter?

[not one of the sheep]

09:00 PM on 04/15/2008

Don't worry the National Enquirer is hiring, oh crap, I forgot, isn't that a subsidiary of the TImes? I hope they stay in business or I'll have to get another paper to line my bird cage.

[mediamarv]

08:29 PM on 04/15/2008

Oh, please, let it be Dowd going, please, oh, please!!!