EW ORLEANS (AP) — Employees are meeting with managers of The Times-Picayune as the newspaper prepares to trim its staff and publish three days a week.

Parent company Advance Publications plans to form a new company to oversee one of the nation's oldest newspapers and its affiliated website, NOLA.com. The Times-Picayune had printed editions seven days a week.

The newspaper says employees are being told Tuesday whether they will have a job with NOLA Media Group or be offered a severance package to leave the 175-year-old newspaper.

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