The paper reported on July 3, 2008, that it planned to cut 250 jobs by Labor Day and reduce the number of published pages by 15 percent. That included about 17 percent of the news staff, as part of the newly private media company's mandate to reduce costs. "We've tried to get ahead of all the change that's occurring in the business and get to an organization and size that will be sustainable", Hiller said. In January 2009, the "Times" eliminated the separate California/Metro section, folding it into the front section of the newspaper. The "Times" also announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial or a 10 percent cut in payroll.