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
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