(Cleveland) - As of this Friday, The Plain Dealer is shutting down its newsroom. The last four reporters and columnists who have been Plain Dealer employees are all being laid off as Friday.
The announcement was made by the Newspaper Guild, the union that has represented Plain Dealer reporters and editors for more than 80 years.
The remaining Plain Dealer writers will all be offered jobs with co-owned web site cleveland.com, which will now generate all the local news copy in the newspaper. Employees of cleveland.com are not in a union.
The union will continue representing writers at the Akron Beacon Journal, Canton Repository, and Massillon Independent.
Plain Dealer editor Tim Warsinskey says in a statement that on June 1, he will become Senior Editor of Special Projects for the parent company of the paper and cleveland.com.
Warsinskey says The Plain Dealer will continue to publish seven days a week, and be home delivered four days a week, with local copy from cleveland.com.
Advance Publications, owner of The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com, split off the two newsrooms in 2013.
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