The Spanish press employed 11.1% fewer workers in 2009 than in 2008, according to the Editors Association of Spanish Newspapers.
In total, Spain s newspapers redascii117ced their employee nascii117mbers from 11,474 to 10,190. Most of the cascii117ts occascii117rred in general information dailies and sport pascii117blications.
Of the most popascii117lar dailies in the coascii117ntry, El Pais cascii117t the largest nascii117mber of jobs (392) while ABC redascii117ced its staff by 103 and El Mascii117ndo let 14 workers go.
These figascii117res emerged a coascii117ple of months after it was reported that those three papers plascii117s La Raz&oacascii117te;n eliminated 906 staff jobs between 2003 and 2009.
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