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Buyouts being offered to Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com employees

More than two dozen journalists with 15 years or more of service are eligible for the deal.

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CLEVELAND — We found out on Tuesday that buyouts are being offered to employees of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and cleveland.com

There is word that perhaps more than two dozen journalists with 15 years or more of service as well as members of management are eligible for the deal.

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— Chris Tye (@TVTye) April 10, 2018

WKYC reached out to company owner Advance Ohio on Tuesday, but got no response. The union representing some of the newsroom workers tweeted out the following:

Today is a sad day for journalism in Cleveland. Advance offered voluntary buyouts to PD mangers and https://t.co/wxaXn4lEOR staffers with 15 years of service. We're sad for the losses this will mean both in our guild newsroom and at the https://t.co/wxaXn4lEOR office.
— The PD News Guild (@PDNewsGuild) April 10, 2018

The PD News Guild added that we won't know which employees accepted the buyout until Monday.

We won't know until at least Monday who accepted a buyout. But we do know that any loss of journalists will hurt our coverage and ability to serve Northeast Ohio.
— The PD News Guild (@PDNewsGuild) April 10, 2018