300 NY Times Staffers Consider Taking Buyouts
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Mark Thompson are apparently going to have an easier time reducing the newsroom by 100 than they thought. According to The New York Post, 300 Times staffers have put in a request with the Newspaper Guild to review their severance packages.
Sulzberger and Thompson announced in early October that they needed to eliminate 100 jobs via either accepted buyouts or, if the number wasn’t reached, layoffs.
Though 300 people are reviewing their packages, it doesn’t mean they’re all in a rush to leave the Grey Lady.
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