At one of Washington's oldest newspapers, deep cuts and an uncertain future

At 123 years old, The Daily Herald is tightly woven into the fabric of Snohomish County, its reporters and readers knitted together through generations.

There’ve been presidential visits, political scandals, and tragedies like the fatal Oso mudslide. And there’ve been Boeing airplane rollouts, high school sports championships and graduations. Each event witnessed and etched into the community’s legacy by those at the flagship newspaper.

This week brought another entry, chronicled like its predecessors, except this time the paper’s reporters, photographers, editors and executives were at the heart of it.

On Wednesday, 10 newsroom employees and two editors got layoff notices in a corporate ransacking by the company’s new Mississippi-based owner, Carpenter Media Group. Another 50 employees of Sound Publishing, of which the Herald is a part, also got pink slips.

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