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Tennessean, Community Papers Make 90 Job Cuts

Gannett Requires 10 Percent Workforce Reduction

POSTED: 1:09 pm CST December 3, 2008
UPDATED: 7:04 pm CST December 3, 2008

Alan Whitt has spent 32 years in the journalism business, from stops in Detroit to his Emmy Award-winning days at ESPN before coming to Nashville.

90 Jobs Cut At Gannett-Owned Tenn. Papers

He anticipated he would lose his job as a senior copy editor for the Tennessean, so he started packing up even before it happened.

"In order to survive, you have to make cuts," he said.

Gannett, the Tennessean's parent company, required all of its newspapers in Tennessee and across the country to reduce workforce by 10 percent. Out of the 1,140 full- and part-time employees at the Tennessean and six community papers, 90 jobs were cut. Twenty-two of those were from the newsroom.

This is the second round of layoffs for the Tennessean. In August, 50 jobs were cut; of those, 40 were vacant and just not filled.

Whitt, even after losing his job, said he worried about the other Tennessean employees.

He also said that having to walk out the building for the final time was tough.

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