Article: N.Y. Times to Reduce Page Size, Slash Jobs

NEW YORK - The New York Times plans to cut 1,050 jobs and shrink the size of its pages in 2008, making them one-and-a-half inches narrower, the newspaper reported in Tuesday's edition.

The job cuts include 800 positions at a New Jersey printing plant whose workload will shift to another in New York City, the article said, estimating the moves would save $42 million per year.

The reduction in the size of its pages would mean a loss of 11 percent of the space devoted to news, but the newspaper plans to add pages to make up for about half of that loss.

"That's a number that I think we can live with quite comfortably," Executive Editor Bill Keller was quoted as saying. "The smaller news ...

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