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		<title><![CDATA[Paper Cuts Tracks Layoffs and Closures]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every industry in crisis needs a good Obit site and since 2007 the newspaper industry has had one -- Paper Cuts by Erica Smith. She uses Google Maps to graphically track layoffs, buyouts, and the eventual closures of newspapers around the U.S.    Smith has been able to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NPR, Newsweek Announce Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like few, if any, media organizations will escape whole from the current economic meltdown -- regardless of business model.    For the first time in a quarter century, National Public Radio has cut a substantial portion of its workforce. The network announced that it is letting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:09:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: ManiaTV Bulks Up Leadership After Layoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ManiaTV has bulked up its management team: adding six seasoned vets from companies like Disney (NYSE: DIS), NBC and Joost just a few weeks after laying off about 20 employees. The bulk of the cuts came on the production side&#8212;as the online TV network/content development company said it would...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org And paidContent:UK]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's been another week of layoffs in the industry, affecting RealNetworks, NBCU, Viacom and MTVN, among others. Be sure to check out our ongoing coverage as we track them.Top headlines of the week from paidContent.org and paidContentUK:paidContent.org:-- Updated: Industry Moves: Microsoft Picks Qi Lu To Head Digital-- IAC Dissolving...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:44:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Most Effective Way to Downsize in a Downturn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a sign of the times; companies are restructuring, downsizing, and laying off workers in droves. And while layoffs should be a last resort, when it's time to do it, the most effective way to downsize in a downturn is to cut early and cut deep. by Steve Tobak]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:05:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb Plans $2.5 Bil. in Layoffs, Cuts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb made a presentation this morning at the Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference that showed CFO John Marc-Huet wants to save the company $2.5 billion in "productivity initiatives." He's going to squeeze these out of "headcount and related costs" -- which sounds like a euphemism for layoffs.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:47:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jones Soda Tries to Save Itself Through Layoffs, Strategy Shift]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jones Soda, which had thrived by being as different as possible from Coke and Pepsi, made a huge mistake by trying to take the soft-drink giants on directly, and now it's fighting for its life.    Even in good times, Jones' attempt to enter the canned-soda market would...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Euphemism of the Day: "Involuntary Separations"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any hope that my extensive roundup of newspaper cuts just two days ago could be my last on that topic for a while evaporated when I read through the media industry news today.    By now you know the drill. What's back and white and red all over?...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trickle-Down Effect of American Axle Strike Spreads to Other Tier Suppliers as Additional Layoffs Are Announced, an Industrial Info News Alert]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- As the 10th week of the American Axle & Manufacturing Incorporated (NYSE:AXL) (Detroit, Michigan) strike comes to a close, the effects of the walkout are obvious. General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) Detroit has either halted or slowed production at 30 of its...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Leads in Layoffs While Drug Prices Soar]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Pharma continues to lend new meaning to the phrase "doing more with less," because while the industry seems to get smaller every day, drugmakers are still pushing through big price increases on their leading products.    Over at Pharmalot, Ed Silverman provides a helpful roundup tracking the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IAC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interactive Corp.'s identity crisis is nearly full blown. Barry Diller, the creator and would-be dismantler of IAC, is turning the company into a textbook example of how to blur a company's brand and how to confuse and and alienate customers, employees and partners. Diller quilted together a bunch of barely-alike...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[UAW Changes Strategy as It Aims to Save Jobs After Ford Layoffs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5935/is_200610/ai_n23925543]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND - Shuttered plants. Thousands of good-paying jobs lost. Retiree benefits at risk. Global competition. An uncertain future.CLEVELAND - Shuttered plants. Thousands of good-paying jobs lost. Retiree benefits at risk. Global competition. An uncertain future.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford Motor Co. to announce layoffs and plant closings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060121/ai_n16024430]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT AP -- In a survey released this week, Ford Motor Co. ranked last among major automakers in the use of its North American plant capacity. The company aims to change that with a restructuring plan to be announced Monday that likely will include closing some U.S. plants, cutting jobs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canada Press: Tug Strikes Threatens BC Pulp Mills.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5564/is_200404/ai_n22907593]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WINNIPEG, MB, Apr 20, 2004 Resource News International via COMTEX    The strike by 800 British Columbia tug and barge operators is  starting to take its toll on coastal communities with predictions that  layoffs in the forest industry could begin later this week, according to ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sony, so long.(Technology)(new global corporate strategy may include layoffs)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5053/is_200310/ai_n18365109]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Sony is expected to lay out its global corporate  strategy, and part of the layout may include layoffs, reportedly as much  as 10% of Sony's workforce. One thing that is already known is that  Sony Electronics in the U.S. will move some of  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Slump in commercial airline industry hits LMI]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5943/is_200309/ai_n24012333]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of businesses that supply parts and labor to the commercial airline industry, St. Charles County's LMI Aerospace Inc. has cut employees and diversified its efforts in order to survive.LMI, a major supplier of airline parts to The Boeing Co., has felt the trickle-down effects of the weak...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Downturn in Thai Hotel Industry Could Force Mass Layoffs.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200304/ai_n22345169]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nondhanada Intarakomalyasut, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Apr. 18--The troubled Thai hotel industry would have to lay off a  significant number of its employees if the financial woes triggered by  the  Sars epidemic are not resolved in the next three...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Airline Industry Tries to Cope with Economic, Political Changes.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200301/ai_n21743509]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By D.R. Stewart, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business  News    Jan. 22--Bankruptcies. Layoffs. Wage concessions.    The U.S. airline industry has had its share of bumps and downturns  in the  past, but nothing like this: After a $7.7 billion loss in 2001,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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