Business & Tech

Journal News Company Cuts 26 Jobs

Written and reported by Tom Auchterlonie.

The Journal News Media Group, the company that includes The Journal News, has cut 26 jobs, the newspaper reported Monday night in a post on its website, lohud.com. The move reduces the total staff count from 232 employees to 206.
The reduction includes a drop of 17 newsroom jobs, the paper announced. In total, the cuts represent about 11 percent of the total staff.

“The reduction in our payroll is necessary as we adjust to the changing marketplace,” Janet Hasson, the company's publisher and president, told her paper.

The cuts at The Journal News Media Group are part of reductions across its parent company, Gannett, the paper reports. 

The paper also reports that Hasson's priority is to "preserve the media group’s ability to deliver on breaking local news and watchdog investigative journalism, both of which remain important to readers in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties."

The cuts are in the latest in recent years for The Journal News, which has undergone a series of major changes. Two years ago the paper announced 47 job cuts, including seven in the newsroom, as part of a broader round of cuts across Gannett. In 2010, Patch reported that the paper's printing plant in Harrison was shut down, eliminating 160 as the work was outsourced to New Jersey.

The Journal News has seen several real estate changes, reportedly vacating its old Harrison headquarters for new space in White Plains. Earlier this year the paper closed its Mount Kisco bureau. 


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