Cleveland Plain Dealer Cuts Third Of Its Staff, Laying Off 50

HUFFINGTON POST: …Guild chairman Harlan Spector said those let go included veteran reporters and photographers who had become familiar names to the paper’s readers. “We have not completed a tally,” said Spector, who volunteered to be laid off…

The Plain Dealer, beginning next week, will reduce home delivery to three days a week while also providing a “bonus” home-delivered edition on Saturdays…

The newspaper, which announced the changes to home delivery in April, also will be printed every day and be available for purchase at outlets in northeast Ohio… (more)

EDITOR: Due to the times, it sounds like this once proud newspaper will serve the purpose of coupon clipping and fish wrapping. Sad.

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