Layoffs occurring at WSJ

Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports Thursday that layoffs are happening within the Wall Street Journal newsroom.

Pompeo writes, “Tim Martell, executive director of the Indepenent Association of Publishers’ Employees, a union that represents 477 U.S.-based members of the roughly 1,800-person combined global newsroom of the Journal and Dow Jones’ Newswires, told Capital management has informed IAPE about the cuts.

“Martell said IAPE was told that they will not exceed 100. A source with knowledge of the cuts said that today, fewer than 30 pink slips will be handed out.

“A Journal spokeswoman did not immediately return requests for comment.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.