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New Orleans Times-Picayune cuts half of newsroom staff

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NEW ORLEANS -

New Orleans' newspaper, The Times-Picayune, says 200 employees will lose their jobs. That's when one of the nation's oldest daily newspapers shifts its focus to online news and publishes just three days a week beginning this fall.

The paper says 84 of the newsroom's 173 employees were cut at the 175-year-old paper. Advertising, circulation and other departments are also affected.

The change means New Orleans will become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age.

In Alabama, three major daily newspapers laid off about 400 employees. It wasn't immediately clear what departments were hit hardest at The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times.

All four papers will continue to publish on their websites, and online access will remain free.

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