30 Layoffs Later, Solomon Tells Staffers, "You are the team we are moving forward with"

The firing of some 30 staffers — from clerks to researchers to photographers and even the National Desk editor — is now concluded, he said.

“You are the team we are moving forward with,” Solomon said, adding that the paper lost “some good friends” in the last several weeks. He admitted frankly that the staff firings were difficult, saying those let go were all “good people” — “I would not like to go through this again.”

The new organization of the paper — reporters will now be assigned to specific assistant managing editors (for example AME for politics, National AME, AME for Security, etc.).