“Newspaper cutting jobs” is such a common story that it’s barely newsworthy anymore, but newspapers still matter enough that it’s worth paying attention when they get gutted by their owners. That’s what’s happening to the poor Los Angeles Times, which has endured enough misery over the past decade that you could write a tragic opera about it.
According to a report by Poynter’s James Warren, Tribune Publishing, which owns the Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and several other papers, is about to enact a major new round of job cuts at the Times and elsewhere. This comes after Tribune CEO Jack Griffin fired Times publisher Austin Beutner over a variety of disagreements—chief among them Beutner’s desire to take the Times out of Tribune, presumably in order to protect it from exactly the kind of cuts now being instituted.