The Sun Times Staff Is About To Get Even Smaller

• RICHARD A. CHAPMAN/SUN-TIMES
• The staff gets smaller, but the building stays the same size.

The clock ticks Monday at the Sun-Times. By the end of the day management hopes to have a long-enough list of employees willing to accept buyouts to avoid having to make layoffs. Over the weekend I was told 11 editorial employees had volunteered, but another three names or so were needed. The target is financial: the paper’s losing money and the time has come to drill yet another hole in its belt. (The Sun-Times and Reader are both owned by Wrapports LLC.)