The Minnesota Star Tribune is cutting 15% of its workforce, resulting in 65 job losses less than a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize.
The cuts, which will be achieved through a combination of buyouts and layoffs, will reduce the newspaper’s headcount to around 430. The newspaper’s award-winning newsroom reducing from 200 to 175, though the cuts will not affect “news gatherers,” namely reporters, photographers, and videographers.
It’s the latest round of job cuts at the newspaper, which laid off 125 last year when closed its Minneapolis printing plant last year and shifted printing to Iowa…