After The News & Observer and the Sacramento Bee opened the week by announcing the elimination of 46 jobs between them, more McClatchy papers followed: The State of Columbia, S.C., announced Tuesday it was laying off 12 in its newsroom and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said Thursday it would layoff 28 employees and eliminate 17 open jobs. Also on Tuesday, the Anchorage Daily News announced an undisclosed number of job cuts.
The Sacramento Business Journal on Monday said McClatchy, the owner of 30 daily newspapers, has cut a total of 4,150 jobs since June 2008 – an average of 138 per newspaper.