20 ONLINE WORKERS AT TIMES LOSE JOBS.Byline: Daily News Twenty employees at the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Times' online edition were laid off Wednesday Wednesday: see week. as part of the latest cost-cutting move by the paper's new Chicago-based parent, Tribune tribune, in ancient Rome, one of various officers. The history of the office of tribune is closely associated with the struggle of the plebs against the patrician class to achieve a more equitable position in the state. From c.508 B.C. Co. The Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the site, latimes.com, is now part of Tribune Interactive and took the major blow in a reorganization, said John Lyday, a Tribune Co. spokesman. Eighty jobs were eliminated nationwide. Forty-six positions that were unfilled were eliminated while 34 people were laid off, with 20 coming in Los Angeles. The other 14 layoffs occurred at chicagotribune.com, chicagosports.com and at Tribune Interactive's central organization, Lyday said. The move is designed to allow the Tribune's online operation to focus on revenue-producing operations and to gain operating efficiencies. Cuts in Los Angles covered a variety of positions, from those handling content to technical support personnel, he said. About 80 people remain with the Times' online operation. The cutbacks were the latest at the Times since the sale; 45 jobs in the advertising department were recently eliminated and 125 jobs were cut as the company discontinued dis·con·tin·ue v. dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues v.tr. 1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: the Our Times community supplements. |
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