Newspaper Owner McClatchy to Cut 1,600 Jobs

U.S. newspaper publisher McClatchy, owner of the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Anchorage Daily News, said today that it will be handing out 1,600 pink slips, affecting 15% of its workforce, in an attempt to deal with the stumbling economy and a drop in newspaper advertising revenues.

McClatchy has been under intense pressure to meet heavy debt payments from purchasing the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain back in 2006.

Job cuts will be realized through a severance program, attrition and outsourcing business functions, the company said in a statement.



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