This Week in Newspapers

 One of the blogs covering newspapers has a very downbeat post. Here's his list from this week:

• The Boston Herald is laying off 130-160 employees.
• The Daytona Beach News-Journal is cutting 99 jobs.
• In Detroit, the joint operating partnership that prints and distributes both papers wants 7 percent of the workforce–150 employees–to take buyouts.
• The Hartford Courant is cutting 57 newsroom positions.
• The Palm Beach Post is eliminating 300 jobs across all departments (130 in the newsroom).
• The Baltimore Sun will cut 100 jobs in all departments by August.
• The San Jose Mercury News is cutting 17 more employees, nine of them editorial, bringing its total newsroom cutbacks to a whopping 63 percent since its peak in 2000.
• The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram cut 31 jubs.
  

Of course this doesn't have the 1,400 McClatchy jobs on the list because that wasn't this week.

As part of those cuts, I can tell you that the Tribune, which had to cut a significant number of positions, will not be cutting reporters. Any of the newsroom lay-offs will come from copy-editors and support staff.

That's not to say that the cuts won't be felt, of course, but it's clear the Trib is trying to keep as many reporters in the field as they possibly can.

In a side note, I thought this was interesting: international publishers are not feeling the brutal pinch as much as the US newspaper industry.