More Details Emerge From Indianapolis Star (Gannett) Layoffs

According to the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, 26 were newsroom positions—copy editors, reporters, librarians, photographers and others.

Guild leader Bobby King wrote about the cuts on the Indy guild blog:

The answer Star publisher Karen Crotchfelt came up with was to gut suburban coverage, eliminate an entire layer of copy editors (that last line of defense which separates us from the animals in the blogosphere) and make a nip here and a tuck there to reduce expenses.