The Virginian-Pilot

Plagued by advertising declines, The Virginian-Pilot is cutting at least 125 positions, or 10 percent of a 1,260-person workforce, mostly through layoffs and shutting affiliated publications, the publisher said recently. Cost-cutting measures, triggered by the sputtering economy, will include shutting Link, a free daily newspaper geared to 18- to 34-year-olds, reducing the size of the newspaper by at least 40 pages a week, or 8 percent, and eliminating the business section, including stock listings, every day but Sunday. The Pilot newsroom will lose 15 employees, with a combined 297 years of service, the Editor said. Some, he said, wanted to leave the newspaper. In addition, two open positions will be dropped. Most of the 15 are editors and managers, he said.