Ron Hetrick, CEO and president of Pennon, said the roughly 24 layoffs are part of a restructuring following the donation of LNP Media Group toand executive director of LNP, Tom Murse, said 11 people throughout the two organizations’ newsrooms are no longer employed. Murse refused to discuss the compensation, salaries or payroll of the former staffers,, told LNP he was one of the employees who was laid off.
“We’re evaluating the Pennsylvania Public Radio network to see where, or whether, it fits into the broader media landscape in Harrisburg,” Murse said in an email,. “We’ve spent considerable time over the past year listening to news leaders at the affiliates we serve across the state, and we take their concerns and suggestions seriously. I am absolutely confident in our newsroom’s ability to continue covering elections the way it always has.
According to employees, Hetrick held a private, “off-the-record” virtual meeting Thursday afternoon. All employees contacted by LNP were not willing to discuss the meeting. The Steinman family gifted LNP Media Group to WITF, a nonprofit, with the hope of a new and sustainable business model for the newspaper, but announced “no changes in staffing, printing frequency or coverage focus would be made in the immediate future,”has agreed they will continue to publish a seven-day a week newspaper with focus on Lancaster County for at least next five years and operate a newsroom the same size or larger for next five years,” said Robert Krasne, former owner of LNP Media...