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Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off Entire Photo Staff

01 June 2013
Published in Industry News

A few months after the New York Times announced major staff reductions in its news gathering operations, The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper laid off its entire photography staff this week, including one Pulitzer Prize winner.

The Chicago paper said it will replace its...

Buyout Program Radically Changed Times Masthead

01 February 2013
Published in Industry News

After a year of cost-cutting and staff reductions in 2012, Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, began 2013 by telling her staff that the "paper of record" needed to cut 30 newsroom positions, offering in a round of buyouts for senior editors and reporters.

So far, managing editor John Geddes, assistant managing editor Jim Roberts, sports editor Joe Sexton and...

CNN Fires Photographers, Will Rely on Amateurs

23 February 2012
Published in Industry News

In another bow to the rapid rise in usage of the camera phone, CNN laid off more than 50 people from its news staff at the end of 2011, including nearly a dozen photojournalists, according to a report from Reuters.

CNN senior vice president Jack Womack wrote in a company memo that it was cheaper to rely on...