Newsday Fires 72, Eliminates 40 Vacancies

Newsday has fired 72 employees and announced that 40 additional vacant jobs will be eliminated, Newsday reports. Newsgathering staff have not been affected, but the move comes a month after the newsroom staff was reduced by 59 people. Advertising staff based in Queens will remain in the same offices, but many of Newsday's city-based reporters have been transferred to its Melville headquarters. This week, the paper began moving all but one of its Queens-based reporters and other staff to either its Manhattan or Melville offices.