"The St. Petersburg Times plans to eliminate 80 to 90 jobs by the end of 2007, primarily through attrition. The newspaper also discontinued its Citrus County edition."
Whoa, Nellie! Isn't this the paper that supposedly is the model for saving daily print journalism? By being "non-profit" and all, operated by Poynter Institute?
It looks like most newspapers are becoming non-profits now, whether by design or not, and that none of them is above the cutting and the slashing.
And this: Shrinking a workforce by attrition is like shrinking it by buyouts -- other than some retirees, you end up losing the people who are most employable. The low producers and goldbrickers tend to hang on for lack of opportunities elsewhere.
