Contra Costa Times | Romenesko Memos
A "sudden and steep decline" that's jolted the housing market in the Bay Area, coupled with an ongoing migration of advertising money to the Internet, forced the papers to reduce staffing, says
John Armstrong, who oversees MediaNews' East Bay operations. He didn't disclose the overall number of cutbacks. The Contra Costa Newspapers advertising production department was told their jobs would be outsourced to Express-KCS, a U.S. company with operations in India. || Read Armstrong's
memo.
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Columbus Dispatch's ad work to be done in India, 90 to lose jobs (CD)
