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BEAUFORT, S.C. The Beaufort Gazette is preparing for the departure of three of its top editors.

SAN DIEGO The San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday announced buyouts that aim to cut its staff by 76 positions, including 30 in the newsroom.

NEW YORK The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash. -- one of several newspapers deciding to drop Associated Press service following the recent AP rate changes -- appears to be the first to challenge AP's ...

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday announced that it eliminated 18 jobs in human resources, production and newsroom management.

George and Betty Stewart, owners of the Orfordville Journal and Footville News, published their last issue August 15.

S. Gale Denley, the longtime publisher of the weekly Calhoun County Journal and mentor to a generation of journalism students, has died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford.

South Florida's three major daily newspapers announced Friday they will exchange basic stories during a three-month trial as each struggles to maintain coverage after cutting their newsroom staffs.

NEW YORK The Star Tribune of Minneapolis has become the latest, and so far the largest, daily newspaper to inform the Associated Press that it plans to drop the service in two years.

morrisj@phillynews.com 215-854-5573 "Would you be comfortable seeing people losing their jobs?" Diane Mastrull asked a crowded membership meeting of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia last night. "Could you go home at night knowing that was happening?" Mastrull, an Inquirer reporter and unit chairperson for the Guild, and other union officers appealed to the members to vote for a postponement of a scheduled $25-a-week raise, due Monday, as a cost-cutting measure requested by Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, which owns the Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, has been removed from his position less than 24 hours after the newspaper's owner, Fairfax Media, announced 550 job losses.

Detroit Free Press Executive Editor Caesar Andrews plans to take a voluntary buyout and leave the newspaper later this year.

FAIRFAX Media, owner of The Age , is to cut 550 jobs because of a pessimistic economic outlook, drawing criticism that it could undermine its journalism.

The Advocate, one of the country's oldest biweekly gay publications, will go monthly beginning in January, its new editor said Thursday, August 21.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 10:11 am Press Release: United Nations The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the assassination of a senior Nigerian newspaper ...

Wayne Stewart, the managing editor of The Topeka Capital-Journal, has died. He was 57.

Maricarrol Kueter, a South Dakota native who has been managing editor of the Argus Leader, was named executive editor of the newspaper moments ago.

The Chicago Tribune on Friday laid off more than 40 newsroom employees -- twice the number many people had expected -- as part of the Tribune Co.'s plan to cut $8.8 million in salaries and benefits at the ...

The Modesto Bee offered buyouts Monday to all its full-time employees. The announcement comes four days after The McClatchy Company, which owns The Bee and 29 other daily newspapers, announced a companywide ...

The editor of the El Paso Times has stepped down, officials at the newspaper announced Tuesday.