Gatehouse Media Inc.

GATEHOUSE MEDIA INC.: GateHouse Media eliminated 130 jobs at the recently purchased Quincy Patriot-Ledger in Massachusetts. GateHouse Media Inc., which owns the Quincy newspaper, said in late July it had entered into a multiyear agreement with The Boston Globe to print the Ledger and its Brockton daily. Last month, as the printing arrangement launched, the Ledger laid off 21 full-time workers, nine pressmen and a dozen other production workers. The other 109 workers were part timers, most of whom worked as few as four hours per week, stuffing inserts into the newspaper. Nine of the laid-off full-time employees had 234 years of cumulative experience handling printing presses.