Breaking: New York Times to cut 500 jobs

The NYT announced this afternoon that it will be cutting 500 jobs, or 4% of its work force, to cut costs. This is after they cut/packaged out 200 employees earlier this summer, 20 from the newsroom alone (see earlier post on same).

The projected breakdown:

  • 250 jobs between the Times, Times Online, and International Herald Tribune. 45 will come from the Times‘ newsroom.
  • 160 jobs will be excised from the New England operation, including The Boston Globe, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Boston.com.
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