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According to an announcement on The Post and Courier's Web site, the company has cut "23 positions throughout the building, including seven that were unfilled."

Read more stories on this subject in our Post and Courier topic page.You can see the one-sentence decree over here.

Back in February the paper cut 25, six of which came from the newsroom.

It appears this round of layoffs is not centered on the newsroom but that some positions were eliminated. More telling is perhaps how a good portion of the layoffs were focused on unfilled positions that had already been lost through attrition.

In an odd occurrence, both layoff announcements were preceded by significant Web site difficulties. 

There's a grander story emerging here in how the decline of traditional publications is following and leading the rise of more independent publications.