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  • LA Times to cut 85 newsroom jobs

    11/16/2005 6:56:47 PM PST · by george76 · 21 replies · 597+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Nov. 16, 2005 | GARY GENTILE
    In the latest high-profile round of job cuts in the newspaper industry, the Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday it is cutting about 85 newsroom jobs, or approximately 8 percent of its editorial staff. Some of the cuts already have come through attrition and some will come through a voluntary separation program, editor Dean Baquet wrote in an e-mail to staff. The balance will come through layoffs by year's end. Employees have until Nov. 25 to apply for the voluntary program, the terms of which were to be detailed to the paper's staff later Wednesday. Baquet blamed the newsroom cuts on...