With Newsday already looking as thin as Life‘s latest incarnation as a glossy version of Parade thanks to its never-ending job cuts, we might be able to look forward to everyday of the New York Times looking as thin as its Saturday edition thanks to the upcoming 500 staff cuts.
The cutbacks will include about 250 positions at The New York Times Media Group, including the 45 newsroom jobs at the Times newspaper. Other properties in that group include the International Herald Tribune and NYTimes.com. Specific reductions for those properties were not revealed.
No worries though, the layoffs won’t take effect until October, which means staffers have at least a week or two to finagle free TimesSelect access for life into their severance packages.