Ten years ago there were 300 journalists working in the Plain Dealer newsroom. Now, after 22 more of them lost their jobs last Friday in yet another round of layoffs by the paper’s corporate owner Advance Media, there are only 14 left. According to a statement issued by the PD News Guild, the nation’s first reporters’ union, “Advance has methodically reduced the number of journalists [at] the Guild-represented PD, while boosting the presence of its non-union newsroom at cleveland.com,” where 63 journalists remain. Thus, what Cleveland Scene’s Sam Allard calls the “ridiculous schism” orchestrated by Advance between the PD and Cleveland.
Newhouse family and Advance Media continue their slow murder of journalism in Cleveland with more union-busting layoffs at the Plain Dealer
