Storied Paper Cuts Jobs Over Trump’s Newsprint Tariff

The Hill reports:

The Tampa Bay Times announced that it would cut about 50 jobs after new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration caused the cost of newsprint to dramatically rise. A spokeswoman for the Times confirmed the layoffs to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, saying they are directly in response to the tariffs imposed on newsprint imported from Canada.

The Trump administration imposed the tariffs on newsprint from Canada in January but increased the amount in March. The trade move was in direct response from a complaint by a paper producer in Washington, who argued that Canadian publishers were using government subsidies to sell papers at lower prices, according to the Associated Press.

The Tampa Bay Times has won the Pulitzer Prize twelve times and founded PolitiFact in 2007.