San Diego Union-Trib has space for sale

Voiceofsandiego.org reports that three floors of the San Diego Union-Tribune's five-story Mission Valley offices were posted available for rent Monday.
Following 192 layoffs in early May, the potential lease is the latest cost-saving move to come from new owners, Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity, which bought the Union-Tribune in March.
The paper's staff shrunk 40 percent in the last three years, dropping from 1,422 employees in 2006 to 850 this year. Newspaper staff is expected to consolidate to the remaining floors.

Platinum Equity has also listed for sale office buildings that belonged to Copley Press Inc., the newspaper's former owner.

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San Diego Union Tribune makes employees sign confidentiality agreement with non-solicitation clause

The San Diego Union Tribune is reportedly making employees sign a confidentiality agreement with a non-solicitation clause.
The agreement inhibits employees from joining rival organizations and from bringing their Tribune colleagues with them (whether currently employed or unemployed at the paper). Part of the agreement states:

"I shall not solicit directly or indirectly, any person who is a SDUT employee or who has been employed by SDUT within the prior six (6) months for employment by, or any business relationship with, a competitor."

This restriction reportedly lasts two years after a staff member's employment is ended.
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