Since The Union Tribune doesn't seem to be talking about it...yet

Voice of San Diego has a more in depth look at the recent cuts to The Union Tribunes news staff. Last week Union Tribune employees were informed that the newspaper had 43 editorial positions set for elimination by the end of the year. The paper is offering buyouts to those positions as well as to any other employees willing to take a buyout for their employment. Voice of San Diego reports:



Only a few areas were spared. There were no cuts to the newspaper’s website, SignOnSanDiego.com, or the breaking news team of reporters who write for it. Also off limits is the newspaper’s Spanish-language edition, Enlace, as well as the free North County edition put out by Copley Press with the imaginative title of Today’s Local News. The newspaper is also saving its computer-assisted reporting team, the geeks who crunch big government databases and help generate stories popular with journalism judges.



Turns out, while the cuts weren't unexpected by the employees, The mood in the Union-Tribune’s newsroom on the third floor of its Mission Valley headquarters is funereal. I heard a couple of old hands say it feels like the end of something, more so than even the 1992 merger of the morning Union and the Evening Tribune.



Times they are a changing. We are a new generation that reads our news updates on the internet, or in tiny emails on our Iphones, we like things quick, easy, fast, half calf, double shots with a side of city life and Target shopping. If blogging is the new way to go, well, watch for the influx.