The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune laid off eight employees Thursday and announced it would reduce some of its print offerings, including its standalone religion section.
Seven full-time employees and one part-time employee lost their jobs, Tony Semerad reports. The cuts “come after the paper lost four other newsroom positions through attrition in the past six weeks and let 19 staffers go in September.”
It will also stop publishing its Faith section as a standalone section, and “Ensuing weeks may bring smaller Tribune offerings of outdoors and business coverage, as well as weather data, comics, TV schedules and puzzles.” Religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack will stay with the paper and Robert Kirby’s column “will also find a new home,” Semerad writes.
Digital First Media exempted the Tribune from its plans to install paywalls at newspapers. It competes in Salt Lake City with the Deseret News. DFM is said to be shopping its newspapers.
