Star Tribune Expected to Make Cuts
Nearly $2.5 million, or 10 percent of the annual newsroom budget will have to be cut at the Star Tribune. The paper had already laid off 58 employees in early February, mostly in the circulation department. The paper also froze wages for all non-union positions.
Tribune Editor Nancy Barnes has been told to make the cuts and she has begun letting the staff know about it, David Chanen, co-chair of the union's Star Tribune unit said in a telephone interview.
"I think we're both [union and management] looking at it as, if that's the final number we need to get at, we're hoping no jobs will be lost," Chanen said. "To that point, Nancy's made it very clear she doesn't want layoffs, and that's obviously our hope, too."
Last week, the paper denied a New York Post report that it was "on the verge of bankruptcy." It has hired The Blackstone Group to "restructure" its finances.
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