Cost-slasher Digital First, a newspaper's owner of the Philly area, runs at Courier-Post, News Journal, USA Today

In the Times Herald in Norristown, the company has cut staff by 73 percent over the past six years, to 12 union-covered employees, among the three journalists, said NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia in 2018. The Mercury in Pottstown, also a digital first paper, has seen an 83 percent kill to 19 union workers in the same period, the association said .