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AP- Blaming declining advertising and circulation revenues, The Spokesman-Review newspaper says it is laying off 14 newsroom employees as part of a companywide cost-savings.
The layoffs announced Thursday involve a dozen reporters, a manager and a nonunion employee from a newsgathering staff of about 137.
Publisher W. Stacey Cowles said layoffs and early retirements in other departments will eliminate about 40 of the company's 550 positions by the end of the year.
Editor Steven A. Smith said the layoffs represent a reduction of about $1 million from the newsroom's budget of more than $9 million.
The layoffs hit the paper's Idaho reporting staff especially hard. At least six of the paper's eight reporters based in Coeur d'Alene were let go.
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