The San Diego Union-Tribune: Doing less with less

Rob Davis analyzes how The San Diego Union-Tribune is making due with less in his article, "Shrinking Union-Tribune," at VoiceOfSanDiego.org. Twenty-nine employees recently took the company's buyout offer. Davis reports that the recent activity brings the total news staff cuts at the paper to at least 10 percent in the last year.
Davis writes that

"Eleven news reporters took the buyout, including some of the paper's best known writers. Two arts critics accepted the offer, as did four editors, two photographers, two food writers and a travel writer. A newsroom source who accepted the buyout provided the list to voiceofsandiego.org. A company spokesman refused to confirm its accuracy. The cuts leave the Union-Tribune with two reporters covering immigration issues as well as Tijuana -- down from five. Gone are border reporter Anna Cearley and Mexico business reporter Diane Lindquist. Lynne Walker, a Copley News Service reporter based in Mexico City, has also left. "

Diane Lindquist, a recent contributor to BusinessJournalism.org, did confirm to us that she has taken the buyout. And she said she plans to launch a Mexican business news Web site. Stay tuned to The Pulse for developments on that site.

Read Lindquist's story on covering border economics here.
Read Davis's entire report on the The San Diego Union-Tribune here.