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How many shoes can drop on one thread? Here's another.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003822536

To summarize: 32 pages per week cut (eight of those will be a Monday business standalone section). A Wednesday style and Wednesday life section will be combined, as will two sections on Thursdays.

Could have been a lot worse, I suppose. Still stinks. No mention about staff reductions.

 

Could be this stuff is rolled out in multiple steps. As in, first you cut down the size of the product, and then you use the reduced size of the product to justify staff reductions. Only figures that, if the paper is smaller, they don't need nearly the same number of people to produce it.