McClatchy N.C. Subsidiary to Cut 78 Positions
The News and Observer Publishing Co., owners of community papers in North Carolina, will cut 78 staffers — 27 from the newsroom — in an effort to remain solvent. Overall, 11 percent of the workforce will be let go.
In addition, remaining staffers making over $25,000 — so almost everyone — will face a 10 percent pay cut and take a week-long furlough without pay.
“We are making our way through difficult times by making difficult decisions,” publisher Orage Quarles III said in a staff memo.
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