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The Rochester, New York Democrat & Chronicle newspaper is eliminating 59 jobs, or 8 percent of its work force, to cut expenses during the recession.

 

The Gannett-owned daily newspaper will lay off 34 employees  this week and has already accepted 14 voluntary reductions, three of them in the newsroom. In addition, 11 open positions will not be filled.

 

The newspaper has not yet specified how many of the layoffs will occur in the newsroom. After the cuts are made, it will have 680 full-time and part-time employees.

 

Each of the fired employees will get up to 26 weeks of severance pay, depending on years of service.

 

The Democrat and Chronicle was once the flagship of Gannett, which still owns the newspaper but moved its headquarters in the mid-1980s from Rochester to Arlington, Virginia. Gannett's flagship paper is now USA Today.

 

USA Today is eliminating about 20 jobs this month from a newsroom that the company said now employs about 450 people.

 

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