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Article: Mercury News to cut newsroom staff by 40.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2007
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Byline: Pete Carey
Jun. 20--The Mercury News will reduce its newsroom staff by 40 positions through layoffs that will take place in July, the company announced Tuesday.
The reduction -- a nearly 17 percent cut -- will leave the paper with 200 newsroom positions, down from a peak seven years ago of about 400.
The cuts are in response to declining advertising revenues, said Executive Editor Carole Leigh Hutton.
"Revenue is not growing in the Mercury News," Hutton told the staff at a meeting Tuesday to announce the layoffs. "We have to offset some of that revenue loss with cost cuts."
Since 2000, the newspaper's revenues have ...