LA Times Announces More Layoffs

The Los Angeles Times has announced another round of layoffs, this time in the press room.

The company said in a statement that it would lay off at least ten pressroom employees “in response to the decline in revenue and page counts." Pressman Ed Padgett reported that "twenty-eight full time employees working in Packaging and Distribution, and Paper Handling have been offered buyouts in Operations," as of two weeks ago.

The paper has been hit hard this summer, cutting editorial positions just three weeks ago. One of the paper's biggest cuts during the recession eliminated 250 positions in mid-2008.

The Times currently employs 127 employees at its one printing facility, according to Fishbowl LA. The paper closed its second printing facility, located in Orange County, to cut costs last year. Layoffs will likely begin on or about August 28, 2011.

Comments

[skraeling]

11:46 PM on 08/17/2011

this is really sad for LA and the country. There is more here than the internet competiton that is driving this. The Tribune set out to destroy a great liberal leaning newspaper and they did it with ease. Who will the public now turn to for information regarding corrupt practices in govt or business? How can any US visual media be trusted since it is owned by corporations who receive their money from selling time to sponsors..health insurance, pharma, political consultants. No democracy can exist for long without a press. The internet is not the tool for truth and is easily manipulated....a sad ending to a great nation is now becoming a reality.

[wforvendetta]

11:30 PM on 08/17/2011

Where will Internet sites get their news if newspapers go under?

[RealistBC]

07:13 PM on 08/17/2011

Another one bites the dust.

[Pamwings]

03:40 PM on 08/17/2011

My hometown newspaper is very good. They were the first to cover the Israeli demonstrations,and are not in lock step with the rest of the U.S. press on the subject of Israel, are good about threats to our health from nukes and wi fi, and are definitely #1 when it comes to The Industry. I would hate to see them go. I read the L.A. Times on my Kindle.

[Lorraine Roe]

02:15 PM on 08/17/2011

I just re-subscribed! I cannot really keep up, but I want to support the work they do. Real journalism matters. I'm sorry to hear there will be more cuts.

[RobietheCat]

05:22 PM on 08/17/2011

Seriously, you call the current LA Times 'real journalism?'

You need to raise your standards.

[Lorraine Roe]

06:54 PM on 08/17/2011

Right, never mind their 2011 Pulitzer prize for exposing the city of Bell's exorbitant salaries.

[skraeling]

11:47 PM on 08/17/2011

Why doI think you are very young and angry and not well educated?

[betrue2]

12:56 AM on 08/17/2011

This is great news. The LA Times is so behind the times. Last year, they opposed endorsing marijuana legalization, which would have given them tons to write about this new emerging industry. Instead, they are going into the dust bin of history. Later.

[SIMPLICIMUSS]

10:05 PM on 08/16/2011

No POTUS has ever been re-elected with a 8.0+ % unemployment rate. With ten thousand Baby Boomers retiring every day, the economy should be producing 3.65 millon jobs a year Not happening.
LA Times laying people off. The USPS closing 3000 offices. How many people is that ?? The head of the SEIU said recently on CNBC that there are 30 million unemployed. That is amost 20 % of the work force.??!! Obama is Toast !!

[betrue2]

01:03 AM on 08/17/2011

What's funny about that statement is it's absolutely meaningless. The U.S. has only seen unemployment above 8% for 4 years prior to the recent few years. And it's clear the Republicans caused these levels of historic unemployment. Bush, Cheney & Rove added $3 trillion to the National Debt - more than any other administration in history. They made themselves rich while making America poor. Remember how much $ they gave to Halliburton? And now they are desperately trying to blame Obama, thinking we'll forget. But we won't forget, not on your life.

[SIMPLICIMUSS]

09:39 PM on 08/17/2011

Meaningless.....Thirty Million unemployed ??

[SIMPLICIMUSS]

09:42 PM on 08/17/2011

Where are those " Baby Boomer Jobs going " How many Halliburton Execs. have been appointed to GOV`t positions. ALA Imelt ?

[RobietheCat]

05:33 PM on 08/17/2011

Perhaps if the LA Times behaved like a real newspaper, and took their responsibilities as the fourth estate seriously, neither we nor they would be in this mess.

Why did they not report extensively on the fundamental flaws in enforcement of the country's financial regulations and laws, particularly since the SEC Chairman was So Cal's Chris Cox from Newport Beach?

Why did they not report on the illegal predatory practices in the mortgage industry from 2001 to 2008?

Why did they not report on the public union's theft of state funds for pensions?

If they had reported on these and other stories with the passion and zeal they use for their daily tear jerking stories of illegal immigrants, they might not have lost so much of their readership.

Their only hope now may be to print in spanish......and rename the paper The Mexifornia Times.

[knott wrench]

06:23 PM on 08/16/2011

"Trickle Down" from the GOPers, Tea Baggers, holding the Economy "Hostage" so Southern Confederate "Saltine" Mitch mcConnell can try to fulfill his "Nocturnal Dream" of making:

"President Obama a One Term President".

Plain and Simple.

Trickle Down. So much for "Kenseian 'Theory'' Disproved in the late 1930's.

[slacker snowboarder]

03:32 PM on 08/16/2011

Sorry to hear this actually. I prefer reading a newspaper in print form rather than internet form.