"The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" has canned 39 more employees. The "paper of record" is outsourcing three of the jobs to one of it's small town papers in Indiana where it operates a call center handling classified advertising. The remaining jobs were cut as Lee Enterprises, which owns the Post, is contracting with a third party to handle it's distribution.
The bottom line for St. Louis is if you want to put a classified ad in the Post, you will have to call someone in Indiana who is employed by a company headquartered in Davenport, Iowa. And if you have a problem with your paper being delivered you will have to deal with some faceless person who doesn't work for the Post-Dispatch, but rather some Lee Enterprises subsidiary.
And Lee wonders why fewer and fewer St. Louisans are reading it's newspaper.
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