BOULDER, Colo.—The company that publishes the Daily Camera and Longmont Times-Call plans to lay off 17 employees in Boulder, leaving it with 328 employees as it consolidates and outsources some advertising design and production functions.
Boulder-based Prairie Mountain Publishing Co. is a subsidiary of ap Inc., whose newspapers include The Denver Post. MediaNews is managed by Digital First Media.
The Daily Camera reports ( ) Prairie Mountain is eliminating 15 ad design positions as part of a move by Digital First Media to outsource advertising design to Illinois-based Affinity Express, which also has locations in India and Indonesia.
Prairie Mountain also is cutting two production employees. Camera Publisher Al Manzi said Tuesday that The Denver Post will house pre-press operations in Denver for its paper and all 15 Prairie Mountain properties.
———
Information from: Daily Camera,
