LA Times: layoffs and section consolidation

The Los Angeles Times will lay off 300 employees, including 70 newsroom staffers, and consolidate sections of the paper.
Beginning March 2, the paper will publish four daily sections. The main news section will include state, local, national and international coverage.

The moves are the latest efforts by the West’s largest paper to cope with the steep loss of advertising revenue caused by the recession and the flight of advertisers to online media outlets. “We’re trying to get ahead of what we see as a very tough year ahead of us,” Publisher Eddy Hartenstein said. “We’re no different from any other company in any other sector that I know of.”

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