Cleaning crew may out-number journalists in PD newsroom

PD will lay off 22 more newsroom employees.

When the PD jettisoned 14 from the newsroom in 2019, that was about a third of the staff. Cutting the newsroom to 33.

So laying off 22 more sounds like maybe a dirty dozen will be left. Sad time for democracy.

Two decades ago the PD had 340 journalists.

There are a lot of ghost empty seats in the newsroom these days.

Will the last reporter or editor left please turn out the lights. The party's over.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/03/staff-cuts-in-the-plain-dealer-newsroom-announced-as-industry-financial-pressures-grow.html?fbclid=IwAR0KLc9c_TiNMFw2WoBwbfOBE3xLZjk1FXOLDsWVYRcU8sCtLigoAaHLj8M