After a brief lull ...

... it appears more layoffs and salary cuts are on the way. http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/06/22/daily3.html

Meanwhile the Guild and the Globe are reportedly close to a deal.

No letup in sight

More layoffs, this time at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, as reported in Editor & Publisher. The cuts will amount to 20% of the staff.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003975725

High stakes game of chicken?

The New York Times insists that it will hold fast to a May 1 deadline to wrest concessions from unions at the Globe or the paper may shut down. A lot is at stake for both sides, but one thing is clear. whatever the outcome the Globe as we knew it is dead. Either the Times will shut it down, or the unions will agree to concessions that will fundamentally alter the kind of paper The Globe is. The $20 million in wage and rule concessions demanded will necessarily affect quality in a direct and noticeable way.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/04/24/times_intends_to_enforce_deadline/

More layoffs

10% at a small 13,000-circulation daily in Michigan.

http://www.gannett.com/about/map/ataglance/livingston.htm

25 jobs lost at the Boston Herald

There's no end in sight as of yet.

Grey Lady starts cutting

The New York Times will be engaging in layoffs and is cutting salaries by 5% "temporarily."

At least one analyst says good luck with that: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-new-york-times-finally-bows-to-reality-2009-3

30 percent newsroom cut!!

Reuters is reporting (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52O5RU20090325) that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced Tuesday it is cutting 30 percnt of its newsroom staff!

There have been steep cuts in a lot of places, lately, but they have tended to be more in the line with the scale announced by the Houston Chronicle, which also announced staff cuts Tuesday, but "just" 12 percent.

1600 jobs to go

Details here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilSE0udp2avqEyU8jL65w2Qq6TXgD96R6JN80

Cuts in pay and jobs, too

That's what they're facing at the Bellingham (WA) Herald.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/daily40.html?s=smc:3

About 10 jobs are gone and the suviviors are taking a 5% pay cut.

45 jobs gone in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus Dispatch announces 45 layoffs: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/03/02/dispatch_staff.html?sid=101

Hartford Courant lays off 100

And just like that, a hundred jobs are gone at The Hartford Courant: http://www.courant.com/business/hc-web-courantcuts0225,0,7696606.story

This doesn't look good at at all

A chart tracking monthly job loesses in each of thelast three downturns. Blue is 1990, red is 2001 and green is the current difficulty.