Houston Chronicle offers voluntary buyouts

More bad news for media.  If it's not a television station laying off staffers each week, it's a newspaper doing something to reduce the number of workers.  This time it's our own Houston Chronicle:

The Houston Chronicle has offered voluntary buyouts to its employees in an effort to shed about 80 full-time positions.

In a Sept. 4 letter to staff obtained by the Houston Business Journal, Publisher and President Jack Sweeney said the paper planned to reduce its full-time positions by about 5 percent to 6 percent throughout the month. READ THE REST

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