Chicago Tribune Cuts 12 Journalists, Closes Jerusalem Bureau

The Chicago Tribune eliminated about a dozen staff positions from its newsroom Thursday, part of a new wave of cuts designed to rein in costs as advertising revenue continues to decline.

The layoffs included photographers, foreign correspondents and reporters, according to people familiar with employees hit by the cuts.

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Comments

[murphy80]

now they will all have to go out and get a job for the first time in their lives.

[naschkatze]

They cut a Pulitzer Prize winner but keep John Kass!

[brj1212]

Chicago got voted the 3rd most miserable city in the Country according for forbes! Ive never lived there but here are some reasons I found by someone who has lived before. Pretty interesting.

http://www.gotoguy.com/2009/02/12/my-miserable-hometown/

[thegoreyears]

I wish Sam Zell would tell us all why he bought the newspaper and burying it debt in order to do so. It obviously wasn't to build a better paper. I know many believe that newspapers are dinosaurs, but without them our RSS feeds would be empty. When I moved from Chicago to the Bay Area I discovered the LA Times. It was a wonderful paper, and it, too, has been gutted. Sam Zell is a big part of what is wrong these days with this country. Go in way over your head when buying something (for what reason in this case, I have no idea), and make other people pay the price. The journalists, the public, anybody but you, right, Sam?