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The day after the Sun-Times reported that the Tribune might lay off 90 newsroom staffers, Tribune editor Gerould Kern told his employees that there was “a lot of inaccurate information circulating now about the nature of the reorganization and its implications for staff reductions.” The Sun-Times was off; pink slips were handed out today to “only” 53 journalists. || Read the memo that Kern put out today.
> The Reader has a list of names of people laid off
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Chicago Tribune lays off 53 newsroom staffers (not the predicted 90)
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