This morning, Craig Forman, CEO of McClatchy Company, emailed all staff to say about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's employees would be offered voluntary buyouts. All of the details were not immediately available, though a meeting was called for 2 p.m. today at the Miami Herald — the chain's most significant newspaper — to offer details. "This will be a one-time opportunity," the email reads. "We do not anticipate another."

Forman stresses the buyout is optional. "It is important to us that [employees] are empowered to make the next steps on their career path," he writes, and also references, "driving our company to a functionally based organizational structure in targeted strategic areas." It's unclear what that statement means.

McClatchy publishes newspapers across the nation, including the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Idaho Statesman, Fresno Bee, and Charlotte Observer. Last August, the company cut about 3.5 percent of the staff, nearly 140 employees.

The cuts were not unexpected after a deal with the Tribune Company fell apart several months ago. Print revenues at daily newspapers, as well as web-based publications, have been declining recently.

McClatchy's move follows cuts at the online news outlet BuzzFeed, which last week gave pink slips to 200 employees including the national security staff, as well as Verizon — the phone company that owns Yahoo, HuffPost, and TechCrunch — which laid off 800 people in the media division. Gannett is letting go of 400, and Vice Media this morning announced the layoff of 10 percent of its staff.

"We are changing the size of the workforce to align with the revenue," says Jeanne Segal, McClatchy's director of public relations and communications.

Here's the email that was sent to staff: