CLEVELAND -- Big changes are coming to the Plain Dealer.
And some specifics are being revealed, without disclosing a new business model.
The Newspaper Guild says the paper plans to eliminate about one-third of the newsroom staff in 2013.
58 positions of about 168 would be eliminated, either by layoffs or by transferring staffers to work on cleveland.com, the newspaper's website.
Advance Newspapers, the paper's owner, has gone to publishing three days a week and becoming more website focused and a handful of its other papers, including several in Michigan, Alabama, and New Orleans.
Similar changes are coming at papers in Harrisburg and Syracuse.
Reduced advertising and declining circulation are prompting big changes at most newspapers.
If The Plain Dealer became a 3-day-a-week paper, Cleveland would be the largest city in the country without a daily newspaper.
A no-layoff or concession agreement between the Guild and the Plain Dealer expires Jan. 31.
A long-term contract extension until 2013 is being discussed. Discussions include changes in health care and pension plans.
The Guild is making a counterpropsal to minimize job reductions.
It's hoping to get some of a 12 percent wage cut restored.
The discussions do not include a future business model for the paper.
In previous statements, the paper's publisher and editor have said the paper is working to create a new model that serves readers and advertisers.
The Guild is conducting a petition drive, sending messages to the paper's New Jersey owners, hoping to preserve a 7-day paper.
There will be upcoming public forums about the paper's role and future.
WKYC-TV
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