It’s the fourth round of cuts in 12 months – another 300 jobs will be axed, 70 from the newsroom. That will bring the L.A. Times newsroom staff down to 650, almost 50% down from its peak in 2001, when there were 1,200 employees.
Management announced the cuts and other changes, including the elimination of the paper’s California section, on Friday.
According to an article in the Times, as a cost-cutting measure, the paper will fold its California section into the main news pages starting on the week of March 2.