(Crain’s) — A group of Newsday editorial employees, expressing dismay at how Tribune Co. is managing the daily publication, are asking to meet with corporate executives to craft a future plan that doesn’t call for further cost cutting.
In a letter sent Monday to Tribune CEO Dennis FitzSimons and signed by more than 100 employees, the authors wrote that Tribune’s “attempts to increase its profits are dulling Newsday’s brand and giving readers and advertisers less incentive to turn to the paper.” They said that by slashing the newsroom by about a third over the years, Tribune Co. “has damaged Newsday as an instrument of public information and accountability.”
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