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Baseball columnist Ross Newhan, who has been with the Times since 1967, has accepted a voluntary buyout offer and will leave the paper, though he will remain for at least the remainder of the baseball season, according to Kevin Roderick at L.A. Observed.
The Tribune Company is ordering layoffs of 60 Times staffers if that number of people do not accept the buyout, according to Roderick. The comments attached to the various entries on L.A. Observed have contained a no-holds-barred discussion of the situation.
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