The Los Angeles Times will stop publishing three community
papers: the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader
and La Canada
Fourteen employees will be laid off with
severance. The job losses are hitting members of the Los Angeles Times Guild,
as well as managers, the paper said.
Last editions of the weekly News-Press and
Leader were set for April 18. The final edition of the weekly Valley Sun is
scheduled for April 23.
Two Times Community News publications, the
Daily Pilot and TimesOC, will go on producing in Orange County
Meanwhile, the parent company of the Times is
furloughing 40 employees for as long as 16 weeks, reducing senior managers’ pay
and suspending 401(k) matches in response to the coronavirus pandemic, The New
York Times reported April 14.
Union staff who belong to the NewsGuild are
not affected. Chris Argentieri, president of the California Times, said the
company would convene with union reps to talk about “cost-saving initiatives,”
NYT said.
In a posting on Twitter, the L.A. Times Guild
said it was “troubled” to learn of the moves affecting the business side, even
though those workers aren’t members of the union. The union said that on April
20, it would hold a meeting to discuss the NewsGuild’s proposal for a national
stimulus program for local news.
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