This winter, a bit more of New York is headed to Florida. Layoffs for 2010 have already been announced for the New York Times Company(NYT). The New York Times News Service will lose 25 editorial positions next year and shift the service's editing to one of the parent company's Florida newspapers. At present, the news service has 30 editorial jobs. Some of the layoffs will occur in February, and the others will happen in May.
These layoffs are not included in the planned slashing of 100 jobs in the flagship newspaper's newsroom -- a workforce reduction of 8% that should take hold by the end of the year. The NY Times is also ceasing pension contributions for nonunion employees.
The Gainesville Sun will take over the news service's editing tasks, as well as page design. For the NY Times, this should result in lower costs, as the paper's newsroom isn't unionized and has lower salaries. According to a spokesperson for the parent company, new positions would be created at The Sun to handle the increased workload -- but the number of jobs to be added and the net impact to the company as a whole were not revealed.
The news service takes completed articles from the NY Times and edits them again for wire distribution. The articles are cut to various lengths for this purpose. The service also puts together weekly inserts for newspapers around the world.
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