So that's what happened in Westchester

I asked last week what happened in Westchester. We were hearing about layoffs at Gannett Co.'s Westchester County franchise, The Journal News.

The New York Times answered this week:

You’re Gone. But Hey, You Can Reapply.

OR from Columbia Journalism Review:

Gannett spins the hamster wheel

Bottom line in both reports: The entire business reporting and editing staff was laid off in a reorganization after all 288 news and advertising employees were asked to reapply for their jobs.

What happened in Westchester?

Chris Roush reports that the "entire business news staff at The Journal News in Westchester County, New York, a Gannett newspaper, is gone this week in the round of 50 cutbacks at the paper."

Westchester Biz News Staff Gone

Since Gannett Blog closed down in July, there's no quick way to find comments from the staff in Westchester. Anyone know what happened?

Roush, director of the Carolina Business News Initiative at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, reports from his Talking Biz News blog.