‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ To Close Printing Plant, 500 Staffers Laid Off (mediapost.com)

The Philadelphia Inquirer is selling its printing plant, an economic move that will cost an estimated 500 staffers their jobs, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper will move production to a New Jersey plant, a union shop owned by Gannett, as it gears up to sell the Schuylkill Printing Plant by year’s end.

At present, the Inquirer is in negotiations to unload the 45-acre property, opened in 1992. The buyer and any financial terms were not disclosed.

She added many have been with The Philadelphia Inquirer for decades. Almost all of the plant staffers — 500 out of 550 — will be laid off. Two newspapers are published there, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, owned by the same parent company, The Philadelphia Foundation.
more at source: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/356764/philadelphia-inquirer-to-close-printing-plant-5.html

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