Tribune axes 500 newspaper jobs

Further to my posting below, Turmoil at the Los Angeles Times, it is to lose somewhere between 100-150 jobs, a third of whom will be editorial staff. They're among 500 job losses announced by Sam Zell, the chief executive of the owning company, Tribune, amounting says to 2% of its nationwide workforce. Other papers affected will be Chicago Tribune, Newsday in New York, the Orlando Sentinel, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. (Via Editor & Publisher)