Yet Another Newspaper Outsourcing Post
Sean Pollay pointed out that the Boston Herald will be outsourcing printing and laying off up to 160 employees. This from E&P: The Boston Herald will layoff between 130 and 160 workers under a plan to outsource its printing operations to other locations within the state, the paper reported Tuesday. The publisher attributes the action to the fact that some of their newspapers have presses that are more than 50 years old, which one would expect are a maintenance nightmare. …