| |
| NEWS
ORG. |
OWNER |
#
CUTS |
DATE |
COMMENT |
| Digital
Convergence |
Digital
Convergence |
160 |
6/29/01 |
Dallas-based
company keeps minimal staff to administer its Cue-Cat
device. |
| Time
Magazine |
Time
Inc. |
12 |
6/21/01 |
Time
says 38 jobs will be trimmed from magazine (biz-side as
well as editorial) for 6% overall cut. |
| Boston
Globe |
New
York Times Co. |
193
(buyouts) |
6/19/01 |
Company
says no layoffs needed as a result of buyouts. |
| New
York Times Co. |
New
York Times Co. |
1,200 |
6/18/01 |
Company
says cuts amount to 9% of workforce. |
| Knight
Ridder |
Knight
Ridder |
1,600 |
6/18/01 |
With
400 previous cuts earlier this year, reduction totals
9% of workforce. Buyouts and offers cost $79 million,
but will save $100 million annually, company
says. |
| Tribune
Company |
Tribune
Co. |
1,400 |
6/15/01 |
Chicago-based
company offering buy-outs to employees 50 and older. Company
hoping to trim its workforce of 28,500 by three percent.
|
| Forbes.com |
Forbes |
17 |
6/14/01 |
Cutbacks
include newsroom, ad sales, admin and tech support. |
| Kansas
City Star |
Knight
Ridder |
4 |
6/13/01 |
Editorial
Pg Ed. Hood and GM Petrak leaving along with two biz-side
execs. |
| St.
Petersburg Times |
Times
Co. |
cost
of living checks |
6/12/01 |
Paper
to save $600K quarterly in face of 2001 profit margin
expected to be lowest in 50 years. |
| Feed
and Suck |
Automatic
Media |
21 |
6/8/01 |
Unable
to get additional financing, owner closes pioneering webzines.
It's Plastic.com continues w/ volunteers. |
| New
York Post |
News
Corp. |
6 |
6/7/01 |
Paper
fires columnist Jack Newfield and five others. |
| Motley
Fool |
Motley
Fool |
45 |
6/7/01 |
Financial
news site lays of 45 in second round of cuts this year.
|
| Comtext
News Network |
Comtext
News Network, Inc. |
11 |
6/7/01 |
Virginia
internet firm says it will cut 11 employes. |
| Macon
Telegraph |
Knight
Ridder |
27
|
6/6/01
|
Twenty
workers at four Georgia K-R papers laid off; several more
openings will be left vacant, and seven buyouts have been
offered. |
| |
|
23
|
11/28/00
|
Seventeen
of the cuts were layoffs. |
| St.
Louis Post-Dispatch |
Pulitzer
|
22
|
6/6/01
|
Eight
vacancies will go unfilled in production; 14 production
workers are let go. |
| Seattle
Times |
privately
held,
with 49% stake by Knight Ridder |
15+
|
6/6/01
|
Layoffs
include nine operations workers, four circulation workers
and a "few" newsroom employees. |
| |
|
300
|
4/21/01
|
Paper
lost hundreds of workers during seven-week strike (read
memo). |
| U.S.
News and World Report |
privately
held by Mortimer Zuckerman and Fred Drasner |
up
to 50 |
6/5/01
|
Staff
of 250 may be cut down to as few as 200. Moscow and Beijing
bureaus likely targets; Tokyo and London bureaus closed
in recent years. |
| Montgomery
Journal, Fairfax Journal, Arlington Journal,
et. al. |
Journal
Newspapers, Inc. |
20
|
6/1/01
|
Layoffs
at Washington suburban dailies include 11 newsroom employees.
Papers will focus more on national news through wire stories. |
| Univision.com |
Univision
|
33
|
5/30/01
|
30
laid off in Miami, 3 laid off in Mexico city. |
| Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel, Journal Gazette |
Fort
Wayne Newspapers |
30
|
5/30/01
|
Early
retirement and buyouts offered to trim 4-5% of staff.
|
| Variety,
Daily Variety, Publishers Weekly, Broadcasting
& Cable, et. al. |
Cahners
|
140
|
5/30/01
|
Three
percent of total staff gone. |
| Marketwatch.com |
publicly
traded
(CBS owns 34% stake) |
~40 |
5/30/01
|
Layoffs
and other cost-cutters will save $9 million annually,
company says. |
| TheStandard.com |
Standard
Media |
6+
|
5/24/01
|
Third
round reduces editorial staff by about 10%. First round
of layoffs cut 36; second round took 69. |
| Industry
Standard Europe |
"
|
55
|
4/10/01
|
Industry
Standard closes European edition six months after its
launch. |
| Industry
Standard, TheStandard.com |
"
|
69
|
2/21/01
|
Seventeen
percent of staff laid off; CEO calls cuts "deep"
and "painful." |
| Industry
Standard, TheStandard.com |
"
|
36
|
1/8/01
|
Seven
percent laid off. |
| CNN
Interactive |
AOL
Time Warner |
20
|
5/24/01
|
20 layoffs at CNN Interactive come on top of the 400 network-wide
layoffs earlier this year. |
| Reuters |
Reuters
|
50
|
5/24/01
|
Management
posts will be eliminated in restructuring. |
| ABC
News |
Disney
|
125
|
5/24/01
|
85
bought out; 25 will be laid off, with other cuts through
attrition. |
| Time
Inc. |
AOL
Time Warner |
? |
6/2/01
|
The
Time Research Center will close down; 42 employees will
be affected. |
| Time,
Fortune, Entertainment Weekly |
|
|
5/24/01
|
365
will get early retirement offers, including 211 editorial
employees. Time mag will try to cut 16 from editorial
staff and about 14 from business side. Fortune
has already cut 30; Entertainment Weekly laid off
6 online ad sales reps. |
| Tallahassee
Democrat |
Knight
Ridder |
25
|
5/19/01
|
Buyouts,
retirement and layoffs. four newsroom staffers cut. |
| Contra
Costa Times |
Knight
Ridder |
87
|
5/19/01
|
Early
retirement and buyouts to be offered to 'several hundred.' |
| Univision |
Univision
|
42
|
5/19/01
|
The
network's flagship station, KMEX-TV Channel 34 in Los
Angeles, was trimmed by 16. |
| Lexington
Herald-Leader |
Knight
Ridder |
15
|
5/18/01
|
Early
retirement will be offered to 11 staffers; voluntary buyouts
for 26 managers. |
| Red
Herring |
Red
Herring Communications |
111
|
5/17/01
|
Third
round of layoffs claims 54, or 20% of staff; all departments
were cut, but top executives were not effected. |
| Miami
Herald |
Knight
Ridder |
180
|
5/17/01
|
700
buyout offers are in the works to achieve 10% cut (read
memos). |
| Wilkes-Barre
Times-Leader |
Knight
Ridder |
34
|
5/17/01
|
Almost
two dozen employees have volunteered for buyouts or early
retirements, and seven open positions will not be filled.
Three or four employees will be laid off. |
| NUE-TV |
New
Urban Entertainment |
35
|
5/16/01
|
News
and programming staffs gone as BET rival seeks investors. |
| USA
Today |
Gannett
|
100
|
5/15/01
|
7
dot-com, 6 newsroom staffers laid off. Rest of 100 cuts
since 1/1 by attrition. |
| Akron
Beacon Journal |
Knight
Ridder |
65
|
??
|
10
news staffers laid off in April; early retirement and
buyouts will be offered to majority of 600 employees to
achieve 55 more cuts. |
| Grand
Forks Herald |
Knight
Ridder |
24
|
5/10/01
|
15%
of 180 employees will be affected. |
| Toronto
Sun, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Sun, London
Free Press, et. al. |
Sun
Media |
302
|
5/14/01
|
Restructuring
plan announced after first-quarter losses. |
| Philadelphia
Inquirer, Daily News |
Knight
Ridder |
200
|
5/12/01 |
Cuts
by 7/1 through attrition, buyouts and possible layoffs. |
| San
Jose Mercury News |
Knight
Ridder |
120
|
5/11/01
|
Buyouts
were planned for 25 to 30 of newsroom employees; at least
16 newsies laid off. Bosses hope to trim 8% of workforce.
|
| Duluth
News Tribune |
Knight
Ridder |
17
|
5/11/01
|
n/a |
| Wired
Digital |
TerraLycos
|
35
|
5/10/01
|
TerraLycos
orders across-the-board staff cuts of 15%. |
| St.
Paul Pioneer Press |
Knight
Ridder |
84
|
5/10/01
|
Cuts
represent 10% of workforce (read memo
from staffers). |
| BusinessWeek |
McGraw-Hill
|
46
|
5/9/01
|
Most
cuts through attrition; up to a dozen laid off. |
| New
York Daily News |
privately
held by Mortimer Zuckerman, Fred Drasner |
36
|
5/7/01
|
36
layoffs higher than the anticipated 20; 15 cuts were in
newsroom. |
| Brill's
Content, Inside.com |
Primedia
|
8-12
|
5/4/01
|
Up
to a dozen laid off as Brill's Content scales back
publishing schedule and Inside magazine disappears.
|
| Rolling
Stone, Men's Journal, US Weekly |
Wenner
Media |
18
|
5/1/01
|
Business,
editorial staffers laid off. |
| Kansas
City Star |
Knight
Ridder |
125
|
5/2/01
|
Layoffs
may be necessary. |
| Sarasota
Herald-Tribune |
New
York Times Regional |
19
|
4/30/01
|
All
19 laid off, including art and architecture critic Joan
Altabe. |
| The
Charlotte Observer |
Knight
Ridder |
~45
|
4/27/01 |
Buyouts
and early retirements offered (read memo). |
| Detroit
Newspapers (Detroit Free Press and Detroit News)
|
jointly
operated by Knight Ridder and Gannett |
100
|
4/20/01
|
Early
retirement offers and layoffs (read memo). |
| Sportsline.com |
publicly
traded (CBS/Viacom owns 34% stake) |
92
|
4/18/01
|
All
departments cut except sales. |
| New
York Times Digital |
New
York Times Co. |
116
|
4/18/01
|
Second
round of layoffs results in office closings for Abuzz.com,
WineToday.com. |
| NBCi |
publicly
traded |
570+
|
4/9/01
|
Final
round of about 300 layoffs comes as company shuts down;
assets will be absorbed by NBC. |
| CBSNews.com |
CBS/Viacom
|
20
|
4/4/01
|
Cuts
represent one-quarter of staff. |
| TheStreet.com |
publicly
traded |
40
|
4/4/01
|
Financial news site lays off 20%. |
| Wall
Street Journal, WSJ.com, Dow Jones Newswires, et al.
|
Dow
Jones |
500+
|
3/17/01
|
300
cut through attrition and leaving jobs unfilled, 200 laid
off. Total cuts amount to 6.5% of workforce (read memo). |
| Intertec,
IndustryClick |
Primedia
|
160
|
3/16/01
|
post-merger
layoffs |
| ABC.com,
ABCNews.com |
Walt
Disney Internet Group |
135
|
2/26/01
|
Streamlining
in order to become profitable. Cuts mainly affected
the ABCNews.com and ABC.com Web sites. |
