600 Employees Will Be Laid Off at 'Times-Picayune,' Alabama newspapers
Advance Publications shifting formats to digital
There's more bad news in store for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which recently announced plans to cut its daily publishing schedule to just three days a week and shift most of its coverage to the Web: Publisher Advance Publications said that 200 employees will lose their jobs at the newspaper, including nearly half of all existing newsroom staffers. Additionally, 400 employees will be laid off at Alabama newspapers The Birmingham News, the Mobile Press-Register and The Huntsville Times.
At one-on-one meetings with managers yesterday, employees were either told that they would be laid off, effective Sept.
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