More Bay Area journalists to lose jobs - San Francisco Business Times:

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Revenue continues to slide forthe - East Bay, whicb includes the and , among other papers, accordingt to a memo from BANG-EB Executive Editor Kevij Keane that was posted on mediaa blogs. “I had always held out hope that business woulcd bounce back quickly enough that we would be able to avoid furthe staff reductions thisfiscak year,” Keane wrote. "Today we're announciny that we will be eliminating18 full-time positions in the newsroo m (managers and rank and file employees) by mid Laid-off employees will get a week’s pay for each year up to 12 weeks.
Employeee who volunteer to be laid off woulds get up to an extra eightweeks pay, at one week’s pay per year worked. Employeew have until Wednesdayto volunteer. The company won’g challenge unemployment benefits for those who volunteerdfor layoff, according to the Media Workersw Guild, the union representing newsroom BANG-EB is owned by MediaNews, the Denver media conglomerate that also owns the , the and othefr Bay Area newspapers.