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After losing four sports staffers last week at the Daily News, the sports editor who doubles as writer of the paper's successful Kings blog had to ask for volunteers to cover this week's games and practices on their own time. One of the volunteers is an assistant managing editor who happens to like hockey, another doesn't even work for the paper but "is making a tremendous effort and is volunteering to escape his day job for an hour or so every now and then, just to help me."
More LANG layoffs: Lots of cuts today in sports and other departments at the San Bernardino Sun and related papers, with a shift in structure that appears to have even the LANG papers in the San Gabriel Valley report across county lines to execs at the Sun. Some detail, most of it anonymous and hearsay, in the comments at Gary Scott's blog.
Tomorrow: A commenter at SportsJournalists.com says newsroom staffers at Singleton's San Jose Mercury have been told to wait by their phones. If they don't get a layoff call by 10 am, they should come to work.