Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a ‘bad’ word, Lee Enterprises cuts staff
Those affected include veteran copy editors and the sole remaining newsroom employee of a North Carolina paper
Journalists at Lee Enterprises — the chain that owns such titles as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Omaha World-Herald — are well accustomed to cuts at the end of the summer, as the company prepares for the close of its fiscal year.
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