McClatchy to cut about 30

One percent, or about 30 staff members, will be cut at McClatchy, according to an email to staff from McClatchy President and CEO Craig Forman, Poynter reports.

Copy editors seem to be taking the biggest hit, according to Poynter. No reporter jobs will go, according to the memo.

In his memo, Forman also indicated that the company’s board is expected to name Peter Farr, McClatchy’s chief accounting officer and corporate controller, as Elaine Lintecum’s successor as CFO. It’s among a number of personnel and regional structure changes outlined in the memo.

In a different memo, Kristin Roberts, McClatchy’s vice president of news, wrote about expanded shared editing teams and centralizing print planning. The memo said the company would complete the removing print production completely from its newsrooms by moving print planning into the McClatchy Publishing Center (Charlotte, North Carolina).

In other news involving the company, McClatchy is planning to drop the Saturday print editions of the Fresno Bee and Modesto Bee in the near future, the Sacramento Business Journal reported.

McClatchy also plans to drop the Saturday print of The Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian in January, KING-TV reported.

Earlier in the year, the company dropped Saturday print of the Myrtle Beach Sun News (South Carolina), the Durham Herald Sun in Durham (North Carolina) and the Bellingham Herald (Washington).

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