ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Morning Call is seeing another reduction to its newsroom staff.
Eight newsroom workers accepted buyouts -- just over 20 percent of the newsroom staff, according to reporter Kayla Dwyer. Their last day was Friday, June 25.
Their departures come less than a month after hedge fund Alden Global Capital purchased the Allentown newspaper and others across the country owned by Tribune Publishing.
Dwyer, a member of the Morning Call Guild, described the buyouts as the beginning of the “bloodletting.”
Twenty-eight members of the newsroom staff remain, she says, including 18 reporters. Of those accepting buyouts, seven belonged to the union and one was a manager, Dwyer said.
Other newsroom staffers remaining, according to Dwyer, include three photographers, two news assistants, two copy editors, two sports clerks and a person to manage opinion content.