The (Baltimore) Sun will cut about 100 jobs, including 55-60 in the newsroom, through buyouts, layoffs and the closing of open positions, says an Associated Press (AP) report. The latest in a series of cuts to the venerable newspaper were announced Wednesday in a memo from publisher Tim Ryan to the newspaper staff.
"These actions are necessary for us to remain competitive and win in the future, and will enable us to create new targeted print and interactive media for the marketplace that satisfy both consumers and advertisers," Ryan wrote.
The Sun is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
The Hartford Courant, another Tribune Co paper, said separately Wednesday it plans to cut nearly 60 newsroom positions and 25 per cent of its news pages as Connecticut's largest newspaper struggles with an industrywide decline in advertising.
Earlier this month, Tribune CEO Sam Zell announced the company would trim pages and editorial content from all eight of its daily newspapers, which have been losing circulation and advertising revenue as readers migrate to the Internet.
