cut five positions<\/a> from the 20-person editorial staff of Pioneer Press. Staffers were offered buyouts prior to the layoffs announced Thursday.<\/p>\nHere is the text of Dold\u2019s memo to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\nColleagues,<\/em><\/p>\nThe news industry continues to face significant financial pressure. We are not immune to that pressure.<\/em><\/p>\nWe are making significant strides toward establishing a business model that will allow us to grow as we transition our newsroom for a digital audience. We do all of this with the focus on supporting our award-winning journalism.<\/em><\/p>\nToday we have notified a number of employees that their positions have been eliminated.\u00a0 This is an extraordinarily difficult decision. I want to thank those employees for the contributions they have made to the Chicago Tribune, our suburban newspapers and our other publications.<\/em><\/p>\nAnd I want to thank all of you for the work you do to affirm and enhance our position as the most influential and impactful news organization in Chicago and the Midwest.<\/em><\/p>\nWe are seeing results. Our digital subscriber base is growing. We are drawing new advertisers who find that we can help them to build their businesses through our digital products. I\u2019m heartened by the conversations I have every day with readers and advertisers. They feel a deep connection to us and to our work. They dearly want us to succeed.<\/em><\/p>\nWe have more work to do to complete our digital transformation. Those efforts will accelerate in the months ahead.<\/em><\/p>\nI am confident that with our outstanding talent we will grow our business, grow our audience and continue to serve our readers and our community with integrity.<\/em><\/p>\nThank you.<\/em><\/p>\nBruce Dold<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing \u201csignificant financial pressure,\u201d the Chicago Tribune announced a round of layoffs Thursday designed to restructure its city and suburban newsroom operations. Bruce Dold, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Tribune, called the move \u201can extraordinarily difficult decision,\u201d and thanked the employees affected \u201cfor the contributions they have made to the Chicago Tribune, our suburban newspapers... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15717,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}