Denver Post Cuts 30% of Newsroom Staff

-- On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Denver Post Editor Lee Ann Colacioppo announced that thirty jobs will be cut from the newsroom beginning on April 9. Final decisions have not yet been made about which positions will be cut, pending a one-week period in which employees can apply for a severance package.

The Post has travelled a rocky road for years and is now owned by Digital First Media, a unit of Alden Global Capital LLC.

Writing at Bloomberg News on March 26, Joe Nocera called out Digital First and Alden Global Capital as newspaper job destroyers:

"For instance, according to figures compiled by the NewsGuild, the union that represents workers at Digital First Media properties, the staff of the Denver Post has fallen from 184 journalists to 99 between 2012 and 2017. The Pottstown Mercury in Pennsylvania went from 73 journalists in 2012 to 19 in 2017. That’s right: 19. The Norristown Times-Herald, also in Pennsylvania, shrank from 45 journalists to 12. The San Jose Mercury News and the Orange County Register, both of which had been dominant papers in their regions before Alden Global bought them, have also been decimated by layoffs."

The full article is at:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-26/alden-global-capital-s-business-model-destroys-newspapers-for-little-gain

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