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The Plain Dealer’s voluntary buyout program, announced two months ago, will result in a 17 percent reduction of newsroom staff.
The newspaper had offered a severance package to all of its 1,450 workers. Of the newsroom’s 372 employees, 64 accepted the offer to leave voluntarily, writes the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The staff reduction is expected to help Ohio’s largest newspaper - which, like most of the nation’s 1400 daily papers, has faced declining revenue and circulation in recent years - reduce expenses.
Editor Doug Clifton believes the staff cuts will not be “too noticeable” to readers, according to the article.
Some recognizable names, however, will be leaving, including Columbus reporters Ted Wendling and T.C. Brown, sportswriters Burt Graeff, Eddie Dwyer, George Sweda, Bob Dolgan, Bob Robers and Roger Brown, auto editor Chris Jensen, obituary writer and columnist Richard Peery, food writer John Long, dance critic Wilma Salisbury, travel editor David Molyneaux and gardening and pets writer Suzanne Hively.
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But this season, online retail giants Amazon and eBay are doing their best to get customers out of stores and…
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