Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/l-a-times-philadelphia-inquirer-face-pressure-of-newsroom-job-cuts Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Parent Company Tribune Co. ousted L.A. Times editor Dean Baquet this week when he resisted pressure to cut jobs. On the East Coast, rumors were floating that the Philadelphia Inquirer could lose as much as one-third of its newsroom positions. A business reporter for the Washington Post discusses the challenges newspapers face. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: Now, a week of turmoil in the newspaper business. Jeffrey Brown has our Media Unit look. JEFFREY BROWN: The news for newspapers has not been good for some time, as shrinking readerships leave more and more of them stained with red ink. Nine of the nation's top 10 papers reported slides in circulation in a recent six-month period, and this week saw several dramatic turns.In Los Angeles, Times editor Dean Baquet was fired Tuesday, after refusing to go along with staff cutbacks demanded by the paper's parent, Tribune Company. Reports then emerged that two California billionaires would submit a bid to buy the entire Tribune Company and its diverse holdings.On Wednesday, the paper cuts came to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where editor Amanda Bennett was replaced, even as the Inquirer and its sister paper, the Daily News, feel more pressure to cut costs after a recent sale to a group of local businessmen.And to update us on the state of play, we're joined by Washington Post business reporter Frank Ahrens.Frank, first for context, is it right to see all of these particular stories as just pieces of that larger story about newspapers today? FRANK AHRENS, The Washington Post: Absolutely. This is a real, real fundamental change the industry's going through, unlike any that I have ever seen or anyone of this generation has probably ever seen.