The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 20, 2009 New York Times to Eliminate 100 Newsroom Positions -------------------------------------------------- And in media news, the New York Times has announced it will eliminate 100 newsroom positions, about eight percent of the paper’s news staff. .