Newsquest has proposed a restructure at its North and East London titles that would result in 12 positions being cut, which union officials claim would put the newspapers at risk, HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk reported Tuesday.

The cut would affect the Waltham Forest Guardian, Wanstead and Woodford Guardian, and Epping Forest Guardian.

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The East Valley Tribune will lay off 142 people, reduce its publication schedule to four days a week and begin free distribution, due to dwindling advertising and lower readership numbers, the Arizona, United States-based newspaper announced Monday.

As of January, the company said it would end its presence in Scottsdale and Tempe and close its Scottsdale newsroom in order to concentrate on other East Valley areas, the Arizona Republic reported Tuesday.

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The Tampa (Florida) Tribune has announced it will trim the newspaper's size and cut staff numbers, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday.

Well-known columnist Joe Brown, was laid off on Monday, along with four other editorial staff members. Earlier in the year, U.S. newspaper company Media General, the Tribune's owner, announced it would cut 250 jobs by the end of the year at all its Florida holdings, including a television station and Web site.

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Employees at the Daily Express and Sunday Express in the United Kingdom have learned that Express Newspapers has a plan for reporters to put their stories directly into page templates, which could put up to 80 sub-editors, or copy editors, out of work, Media Guardian reported Wednesday.

After reporters put their stories onto pages, rewriters and lawyers would check the pages.

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Union drivers who deliver the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times from presses to distribution centres have voted to strike, a move that is sure to hurt both struggling newspapers, the Seattle P-I reported.

About 70 Teamsters union drivers voted on Sunday to strike after negotiating with The Seattle Times Co. for 10 months. The strike could begin as early as Oct. 21.

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McClatchy announced it will cut another 1,150 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, its second big job elimination of the year, paidContent reported.

Excluding $20 million in severance costs, this move is aimed to save $100 million for the company over the next year, which represents about 6 percent of trailing 12 month expenses for the company. About half of the cuts will come from “voluntary programmes and managed attrition.”

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Gannett announced plans to re-organise its corporate structure and cut about 100 management positions, according to U.S. Community Publishing President Robert Dickey in a letter to employees Tuesday, Editor and Publisher reported.

The company just eliminated its workforce by 1,000 positions in August, due to a series of buyouts and attrition in its newspaper division.

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Australian papers The Age and The Sunday Age will cut between 45 and 55 editorial jobs in the next two months, according to acting editor-in-chief Paul Ramadge Wednesday, Asia Media reported.

The cuts, making up between 11 and 14 percent of the publications' editorial staff, are part of the plan to cut 550 workers outlined by Fairfax Media couple weeks ago.

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The Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer offered voluntary buyouts to 320 employees, including all full time newsroom staff, in an effort to gain ground amid an advertising landslide, The News & Observer reported Thursday.

The number being offered buyouts at the newspaper, owned by Sacramento, Calif.-based McClatchy Co., is about 40 percent of total employees.

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Fairfax Media Ltd. journalists have voted to strike until Monday over the company's plans to cut about five percent of its employees, according to The Australian posted on Bloomberg.

The strike will impact production of its two biggest titles, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age in Melbourne, said Fairfax journalist Gerard Noonan.

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Writers, editors, and advertising sales representatives at The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News Wednesday agreed to postpone a $25 weekly raise in order to help the papers cut $10-million costs by the end of this year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The 700-strong Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia voted, and agreed to push back the raise until Aug. 1, 2009, one month before the current labor contract with Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC expires, according to the article posted on MediaInfoCenter.

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Telegraph Media Group will create 40 new permanent jobs for people with new media skills, such as data management and mapping, and will cut casual staff, Press Gazette reported.

Casual staff working for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk have been invited to apply for the new jobs, advertised on the company's intranet.

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Fairfax Media Ltd., Australia's second-biggest newspaper publisher, will cut about 5 percent of its staffers, or 550 jobs, in order to save AU$50 million (US$43 million) in annual costs, Bloomberg reported.

The reductions will begin in the later half of this year, with a third of the cuts coming from editorial departments, according to the company statement Tuesday.

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McClatchy Co. will offer more buyouts at the Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee in an attempt to deal with plummeting advertising revenue at two of its biggest papers.

Mark Zieman, publisher of the Star, announced the third round of voluntary buyouts in an e-mail to employees Monday, but he did not give a specific number of jobs the company hopes to cut.

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Regional newspapers in the Midlands, United Kingdom are not the only ones to announce staff cuts in the past week. Across the Irish Sea, the Offaly Independent in Tullamore, Ireland is asking employees to re-apply for their positions as well, the Irish Independent reported Tuesday.

New plans call for the Offaly Independent to cut more than half its employees, keeping three of seven.

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