[The Hill] A competitor that purchased The New Orleans Times-Picayune laid off the newspaper's entire staff.
"But we belong to a union!"
The New York Post reported Friday that a total of 161 workers lost their jobs, including 65 reporters and editors, citing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
The owners of The New Orleans Advocate, John and Dathel Georges, purchased The Times-Picayune from Advance Local. Advance Local is part of the same corporation that owns Condé Nast.
The Advocate will publish a daily paper using the names of both brands beginning in June and will merge their websites under NOLA.com.
Times-Picayune staffers mourned the layoffs on Twitter. |