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Report: Journal News Cuts 47 Staff Members

The cuts reportedly include seven newsroom positions.

 

The Journal News has parted ways with 47 staff members, according to a report published by the newspaper today.

Cuts include seven newsroom employees, according to the report. The layoffs are part of a reported 700 layoffs within Gannett newspapers nationwide.

The Journal News primarily covers Westchester and Rockland Counties as well as parts of southern Putnum County.

The newspaper's offices are currently located along Westchester Avenue in Harrison, but the company recently announced plans to sell the building if a proposed fitness center is approved by the town. Printing operations on the site were outsourced to New Jersey in 2010.

The announcement continues a trend of decreased staffing for The Journal News. Two years ago the newspaper laid off 50 of its then 192 newsroom employees, according to an article published by the Poynter Institute.

Janet Hasson, newly-appointed president and publisher of the Journal News, said in the article that the newspaper will continue to make it a priority to preserve local content important to readers and advertisers.

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Dina Sciortino

10:42 pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Our condolences to those who lost their job, and their families.

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Frank Figliola

11:58 am on Thursday, June 23, 2011

A newspaper that can endorse a Schumer, a man on banking and finance committees who receives
his largest campaign contributions from those same entities he regulates, and who was the largest
promoter of Fannie and Freddie and who opposed all attempts to rein in those entities and opposed
all efforts to stop issuing toxic mortgage loans and in fact helped to create sanctions to force banks to
give out those loans, is a newspaper that has lost touch with its reason for being. It has lost its
capacity to investigate, inform, and call out our politicians.

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chsw

1:52 pm on Thursday, June 23, 2011

Gannett's business is now some laggard websites for advertising stuff and a hotel newspaper. The Journal News will now be read by readers with incontinent pets.

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NAO

7:40 pm on Friday, June 24, 2011

That is terrible. The guy Andrew who was handling the Harrison area was doing doing a good job.
Naomi

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Dina Sciortino

9:26 pm on Friday, June 24, 2011

Yes, please no personal attacks—thank you!

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