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Newsday to ax 100 newspaper jobs; layoffs possible at Hartford, Conn., paper.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004

By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 12--Long Island's Newsday, sister publication to The Hartford Courant, said Thursday that it will cut 100 jobs through buyouts and layoffs to reduce expenses following a circulation scandal.

The planned cuts represent about 3 percent of the company's overall workforce. A report on the newspaper's website said that about half of the job losses were expected to come among news employees.

Newsday, which is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., has been struggling to reorganize since the newspaper revealed that its daily and Sunday circulation had been overstated by about 100,000 copies.

On Monday, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, another Tribune...

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