Job Cuts at New York Times

According to an article from Editor and Publisher, executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, sent an internal staff memo describing plans to layoff 12 current newsroom employees as well as outlining the intentions of future management position “eliminations.”

“As we move into 2008, we will be rethinking coverage priorities and how we use our space and our people, but always in ways that preserve what The Times does best. In the future, as in the past few months while these matters were under review, we have worked closely with our partners on the business side, with a single shared ambition: to seek cutbacks and reductions that are as strategically focused as possible, and do nothing to damage our core journalism.”

This announcement shows that no publication is stable enough to survive the transition from print to web completely intact.

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Audit Bureau of Circulations’ numbers show big declines

Numbers for more than 700 daily newspapers were released this morning and show decline in daily circulation in all but four of the top 25 newspapers. Editor and Publisher reports that the Boston Globe was hit hard as daily circulation numbers fell 6.6 percent and Sunday numbers dropped 6.5 percent. The New York Times showed a huge decrease in Sunday circulation numbers, however, the decrease is partially due to the Times’ recent subscription price increase.

As expected, circulation — at least paid circulation — continues to decline sharply. For the past several years, publishers, particularly those at major metros, have been whittling back on circulation considered to be less useful by advertisers. Those papers fall into the category of other paid, which includes hotel, Newspapers in Education, employee, and third party copies.

[...]For the first time, ABC also released comprehensive “audience” data — print readership, online readership, unduplicated reach, and monthly unique users — for roughly 200 papers. The industry is moving toward numbers that take into consideration all their products, including newspaper Web sites, not just paid circulation.

View the ‘top 25’ list: FAS-FAX: Top 25 Daily and Sunday U.S. Newspapers