Newspapers in Trouble
(2008-10-02)
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SEATTLE, WA
(KPLU) -
You've been hearing a lot about the Wall Street financial crisis lately, but the news organizations that write about those stories are having trouble themselves. The Seattle Times has gone through one round of staff cuts and employees are worried another is in the works. And McClatchy - one of the nation's most successful and largest news companies - just announced its second round of cutbacks this year. In the northwest, the company owns newspapers in Tacoma, Olympia, Gig Harbor, Puyallup and the Tri-Cities. KPLU's Anna King, a former print journalist, explains what's going wrong.
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