Cox Media Group, a unit of family-owned Cox Enterprises, has made “severe cuts” in the photography departments of three of the group’s newspapers,
according to the National Press Photographers Association.
According to NPPA, the ten-person photography staff at the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Cox’s flagship paper, will be cut in half by November 1.
At Cox’s
Austin American-Statesman
in Texas, one photography editor and two photo staff members were offered voluntary buyouts, NPPA said. In addition, 35 buyouts were offered in the paper’s newsroom, NPPA said.
At Cox’s
Palm Beach Post
in Florida, staff members over 55 years old with 10 years of service or more, or over 65 with five years of service were offered voluntary buyouts.
NPPA noted that jobs at the Austin and Atlanta papers were slashed in October 2011 under a restructuring plan that consolidated copy editing and page designing jobs at central locations at the Cox papers in Dayton, Ohio, and Palm Beach. (Source: National Press Photographers Association, Oct. 10, 2013.)
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