Doomsday in L.A.: The L.A. Times Cuts 150 Newsroom Jobs
By John Koblin
July 3, 2008 | 8:09 a.m.
The writing has been all the wall for weeks and now the carnage has been unleashed: the L.A. Times is cutting loose 150 newsroom positions, and 250 overall. Pink slips come by Labor Day. This news comes only a few months after the paper let go 36 newsroom jobs through buyouts, and puts the total newsroom number at about 700, down from the 1,200 it had just seven years ago.
Russ Stanton's sobering memo is here.
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