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Layoffs at Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune announced it will eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs by the end of August and reduce the number of pages it publishes by 13 percent to 14 percent each week.

This is the fourth round of cuts at the paper since late 2005, when the newsroom had aproximately 670 positions.

Tribune’s industry troubles are compounded by the debt load acquired when the company went private at the end of last year.