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Entire New Orleans Times-Picayune staff laid off in sale
[The Hill] A competitor that purchased The New Orleans Times-Picayune laid off the newspaper's entire staff. "But we belong to a union!" The New York Post reported Friday that a total of 161 workers lost their jobs, including 65 reporters and editors, citing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The owners of The New Orleans Advocate, John and Dathel Georges, purchased The Times-Picayune from Advance Local. Advance Local is part of the same corporation that owns Condé Nast. The Advocate will publish a daily paper using the names of both brands beginning in June and will merge their websites under NOLA.com. Times-Picayune staffers mourned the layoffs on Twitter. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-05 |
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