Big layoffs coming to Gannett, owners of USA Today

UPDATE: Looks like the number is more like 1,000.

Another Big Round of Layoffs is Imminent at Gannett – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.

FROM THE ARTICLE: On Gannett Blog, a former Gannett editor who closely follows the company, Jim Hopkins, quotes an unnamed person in the company as saying that it will announce on July 8 that it is eliminating 4,500 United States newspaper jobs, and cutting salaries in its broadcast division. Gannett executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, said the number of jobs affected would be significantly smaller than that, and the news would probably come sooner than July 8.

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