All of the Providence Journal's part-time staff members will be cut along with five-full time staffers, the Providence Newspaper Guild announced Sept. 24. No employees from the advertising department will be cut.
The Journal's company A.H. Belo, which also own the Dallas Morning News, has offered severance packages of 1.25 weeks of pay for every year of employment, with up to 30 years. Staffers who have worked beyond 30 years can earn double.
Belo hopes the cuts at the Journal, the News and also The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., will save the company nearly $30 million this year. The company had announced Sept. 5 that 413 employees companywide had taken voluntary buyouts. Of that amount, 23 were accepted at the Journal before the 30 were cut Sept. 24.
Belo is one of many newpaper companies that have had to undergo massive layoffs. Most recently the McClatchy Co. laid off 20 percent of its workforce in order to help ease its nearly $4 billion debt. It was also announced this month that another 1,150 McClatchy employees would be laid off.
The Journal is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island and has won four Pulitzer Prizes.
Read the Providence Newspaper Guild's announcement here for more details on the cuts.
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