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Feb 27, 2009 8:25 pm US/Eastern

Boston Herald Aiming To Cut 20 More Jobs

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The Boston Herald is looking to cut 20 jobs.

In a memo to employees Friday, Herald president and publisher Patrick Purcell said the ongoing downturn in the economy is forcing the daily tabloid to offer buy-outs to employees. Purcell said the buy-outs will be offered to full-time editorial and commercial guild employees as well as full-time exempt non-union employees at the Boston Herald and Herald Interactive.

The planned reductions amount to around 5 percent of the Herald's staff.

Last summer, the newspaper laid off more than 100 employees and outsourced its printing to Chicopee and Norwood.

In January, the Boston Globe announced it was cutting up to 50 jobs from its newsroom.

Also on Friday, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver printed its last edition, becoming the nation's largest newspaper to fold amid a failing recession. The Pulitzer prize-winning paper had been in operation since 1859.

Some say newspapers failing across the country is a sign of the times.

"It's the paper. People go online now," said 25-year-old Denver resident Mike Hankinson.