Jaclyn Peiser

Trump’s Tariffs on Canadian Newsprint Hasten Local Newspapers’ Demise

The Trump administration’s decision to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint is hastening the demise of local newspapers across the country, forcing already-struggling publications to cut staff, reduce the number of days they print and, in at least one case, shutter entirely. A Charles River Associates study undertaken on behalf of a coalition of printers, publishers and paper suppliers projects that American newsprint prices will increase more than 30 percent in the next one to two years, and that newspapers and printers will face an increased cost of roughly half a billion dollars from the

Tronc Cuts NY Daily News Newsroom in Half and Ousts Editor in Chief

The meeting lasted less than a minute. By the time it was over, reporters and editors at The NY Daily News had been told that the newsroom staff was being cut in half and that the editor in chief, Jim Rich, was out of a job. Grant Whitmore, an executive at Tronc, the media company that owns The News, presided over the meeting. About 50 members of the newspaper’s staff were in attendance. The new editor in chief is Robert York, currently the editor and publisher of The Morning Call, a Tronc-owned daily newspaper in Allentown (PA).