Mediagazer: Buffett company to close Va. newspaper, cut 105 jobs (Steve Jordon/Omaha World-Herald)

10:10 AM ET, November 14, 2012

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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:

Buffett company to close Va. newspaper, cut 105 jobs — A 10,000-circulation Virginia newspaper owned by Warren Buffett's investment company will close at the end of the year as part of plan involving 105 job cuts in the 2,000-employee eastern U.S. newspaper operation. — The company said no other job cuts are planned.

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