The 14-year-old digital news organization is enduring growing pains, according to leadership.
In an hours-long staff meeting Thursday morning, Tribune leadership — including Shah and Editor in Chief Sewell Chan — sought to reassure staffers that the painful cuts were necessary for growth.
By now, the decline of local news is well-understood. The advertising revenue that kept print newspapers afloat for most of the 20th century shrank with the rise of digital advertising on free sites like Google and Facebook.
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