Capital Cutbacks   

Since 2005, newspapers have eliminated more than 40 regional reporter staff positions through layoffs, buyouts and attrition. The newspapers and newspaper companies that have cut back include:

Paper/Company/Service Number of positions

Copley News Service/ 6

Cox (Palm Beach Post)/ 1

Daily News (Los Angeles)/ 1

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)/ 1

Des Moines Register/ 1

Denver Post/ 1

Fairbanks News-Miner/ 1

Gatehouse Media/ 2*

Lee Enterprises (Missoulian)/ 1

Lowell Sun (Massachusetts)/ 1

McClatchy News Service/ 2

Orlando Sentinel/ 1**

Patriot-News (Harrisburg)/ 1

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/Toledo Blade/ 5***

Portland Press Herald (Maine)/ 1

San Francisco Chronicle/ 2

Seattle Times/ 1

Small Newspapers/ 1

St. Louis Post-Dispatch/ 4

Star-Ledger (Newark)/ 2

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)/ 1

Stephens Media/ 3

Winston-Salem Journal/ 1

*Gatehouse purchased two papers from Copley and did not keep two reporters.

**Reporter worked part time

***Combined bureau with four full-time reporters and one part-time reporter