Whitaker on CMS: Expect Layoffs at the NYT

FishbowlNY caught this comment on cuts at the NYT from NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Mark Whitaker on the Chris Matthews Show this weekend:

Look, it’s a — it’s a real problem. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer couldn’t survive with a newsroom of 165 people. It’s going down to a Web staff of 20. The New York Times still has over 1,000, The Washington Post has almost 800. Those are going to have to go down. So if investigative journalism is going to survive, it’s because institutions, those newspapers, their owners decide that if they only have a limited number of people left, they’re still going to keep those people on investigative reporting.

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