Another Tribune paper begins cuts

Newsday, based on Long Island, will offer 45 buyouts and slash its coverage of Manhattan. "The decision to reduce our city staff was wrenching. But the cold, hard truth is that we can no longer support the investment necessary to cover the city as ambitiously as we do today," the editor says in a memo at Romenesko.


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