Cablevision closed Newsday’s digital-only Westchester operation Wednesday, Sara Morrison and Tony Maglio report.
Though Cablevision will not disclose how many employees were laid off, an individual with knowledge of Newsday’s plans told TheWrap that the layoffs will affect “a reasonably small” number of people. Another insider estimated the number may be close to 25.
The news org “launched in the spring of 2012 in an effort to compete with The Journal News and lohud.com in the Lower Hudson Valley,” The Journal News reports in an unbylined article. “Editors, reporters and photographers for the organization covered local news in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Dutchess counties.” News 12, with which the Westchester operation partnered, and Newsday itself “will continue to operate,” The Journal News reports.