Editor & Publisher has updated its November 17 article that announced "More than 2,000 Newspaper jobs lost in 2005," listing cuts paper by paper and splitting the stats between newsroom and companywide cuts. A rough estimate of lost newsroom positions is 525, the most coming from the Los Angeles Times at 85 editorial positions eliminated and the latest from the Chicago Tribune which is losing 28 newsroom staff.

In response to the job cuts at papers of the Chicago-based Tribune Company, the liberal activist group MoveOn.org began a petition claiming that the staff reductions would hinder the papers' ability to produce "strong watchdog journalism."

The petition has already received over 17,000 signatures against cuts at the Los Angeles Times and more than 10,300 signatures protesting against cuts at the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Orlando Sentinel.

Sources: Editor & Publisher, The Chicago Tribune