Cleveland Plain Dealer cuts staff

Pretty drastically, too:

The Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, announced Wednesday that 64 of its 372 editorial employees - about 17 percent of its reporters, editors, photographers, clerks and librarians - have accepted a voluntary buyout program to reduce newsroom staff.

The Plain Dealer's owner, Advance Publications Inc., offered the buyout in August to all of its 1,452 workers to help reduce expenses. Several newspapers have taken similar steps as readers turn to television and the Internet for news, reducing newspaper circulation.