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Kansas City Star, Wichita Eagle To Cut 132 Jobs

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Channel: KMBC 9 · 2008 · News & Politics

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The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle said Monday they plan to cut a combined 132 jobs as its parent company, McClatchy Co., reduces its work force by 10 percent as it struggles to attract advertising dollars.

The Star, the newspaper chain's third-largest paper with daily circulation of 252,957, will cut 120 positions, or 10 percent. The Eagle, with daily circulation of about 85,000, will cut 12 positions, or about 3 percent.

"This is a painful but necessary step," Mark Zieman, The Star's publisher, said in a statement. "These cuts are part of the way we must respond as we strategically realign our company for success in this digital age."

Zieman said the cuts would come in all divisions of the paper, as well as its network of community newspapers and magazines, and would occur through a combination of voluntary and involuntary layoffs.

Zieman added that The Star is also reducing its daily circulation by about 5,000 as it contracts the size of its newspaper delivery area.

He added that he didn't believe the cuts would affect the paper's news coverage.

"Today's realignment will help keep The Star strong and vital for the future," he said.

Besides The Star, the company also publishes the Olathe News, the Lee's Summit Journal, the Belton Star Herald and the Cass County Democrat, as well as a number of Kansas City lifestyle magazines and a free weekly targeting younger readers.

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