The Portland Tribune and two sister papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City plan to cease their print editions, according to the papers’ parent company, Carpenter Media. A third paper, the Gresham Outlook, will shift from two print editions a week to one.
All four will continue publishing online. The print cutbacks follow layoffs last week that eliminated more than a dozen jobs in Carpenter’s local newsrooms, including six journalists at the Portland Tribune. The layoffs left the Tribune with just two reporters and no editor.
“We know the media landscape will never be unchanging for any length of time,” said John Carr, publisher of Carpenter’s papers in Oregon and North Carolina. “We are committed to continuously evolving to meet readers wherever they seek news and information.”…