The New York Slimes is cutting 100 jobs from its newsroom this year as financial pressures mount from readers leaving the rag in droves.
Executive Editor and part time bottle washer Bill Keller told his minions that the cuts would come mainly through attrition and buyouts but layoffs and backstabbings were also possible.
Spokeswomen Catherine Mathis said the paper has a total of 1,332 indentured slaves in the newsroom, which would make the cutbacks equivalent to nearly 8% of the editorial staff. Half of which are normally at Hazelden anyway.
The Times has cut jobs elsewhere in the paper. Mostly in the fact checking department. But these cuts are the first and hopefully not the last in recent memory to affect its newsroom and DNC brothel. |