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WFDD / David Ford / Sep 18

One-third of the remaining news staff at News & Record in Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal were cut. It was at least the third round of layoffs since February 2018. —SS

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Scire, Sarah. "Another round of layoffs leaves “skeletal reporter staffs” covering two of North Carolina’s biggest cities." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Sep. 2020. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.

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Scire, Sarah. "Another round of layoffs leaves “skeletal reporter staffs” covering two of North Carolina’s biggest cities." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 18, 2020. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/another-round-of-layoffs-leaves-skeletal-reporter-staffs-covering-two-of-north-carolinas-biggest-cities/.

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