As Conde Nast regroups itself into one big umbrella with smaller, more specific little umbrellas for its many magazines, two that will be left out in the rain to have their pages turn to soggy stock are Vitals Man and Vitals Woman.

The Inquirer is seeking to reduce its editorial staff 15 percent, from 500 to 425 people; the Philadelphia Daily News will cut its editorial staff 19 percent, from 130 to 105.

Both newspapers are published by Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., which is owned by Knight Ridder Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company.

In a memo to employees Tuesday, PNI publisher Joe Natoli said: "We hope to achieve many of the cost reductions through voluntary buyouts. Failing that, there will be newsroom layoffs."

Under the buyout package, unionized newsroom employees would receive two weeks' pay for every year of service, with a year's salary the maximum amount.

Today we are announcing staff reductions similar to those we announced in May. We anticipate that approximately 500 employees across the Company will be affected including 250 positions at The New York Times Media Group, 160 positions at The New England Media Group and the balance at our regional newspapers, our broadcast properties and our corporate staff. The Company expects to begin the reductions in October and complete it over the next six to nine months.

As soon as the buyout decisions were revealed this past week, rumors of looming layoffs also began. One source said word had gone around the paper that at least 30 staffers would be let go if the 120 buyout goal was not reached. But Hoyt said no decisions had been made on further job cutting.

"I know that magic [buyout] number is 120 and if we don't get there, there is a possibility that we would have a handful of layoffs to get to that number," Hoyt said. "The guild contract made it clear that that was possible. But there is nothing at this point substantiated."

Organic Style was founded in 2001 by Rodale vice chairman Maria Rodale, has struggled since its inception. The title launched on the heels of Time Inc.'s Real Simple, which has been a huge success. Organic Style, however, never found a consistent voice and had to ensure media buyers that it was not in fact a crunchy health magazine.

Making matters worse, the title went through a revolving door of editors and publishers. Randy Frank Leeds replaced Sally Preston as publisher last May after Preston defected to Martha Stewart's Living to become senior vp, publisher. Jeanie Pyun served as Organic Style's most recent editor, joining the title in April 2004. Pyun oversaw a redesign of Organic Style three months later.

For the first half of 2005, Organic Style reported a 4.5 percent increase in paid circulation, to 761,822, surpassing its rate base guarantee of 750,000, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Although newsstand sales make up less than 10 percent of overall circ, Organic Style saw single-copy sales plummet 26.1 percent to 55,755. Organic Style missed its rate base for the second half of 2004.

Newsday said it will cut 45 editorial positions and trim New York City coverage, the latest contraction at the paper since a costly circulation scandal last year.

The cuts will be mostly at the New York City office, which will operate with a smaller staff as the paper focuses on Long Island and Queens, according to memos sent to employees by the paper?s publisher and editor.

The paper will "concentrate the bulk of [its] resources on core coverage areas of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens," according to the memo from Newsday Publisher Timothy Knight. He said the paper would seek voluntary buyouts rather than layoffs.

Newsday especially has been under scrutiny because of a circulation scandal in which the newspaper admitted inflating its daily and Sunday circulation in the past by about 100,000 copies. Several business executives have been fired as a result.

Norman Zada is CEO of Perfect 10, which publishes a print magazine and a subscription-only Web site showing nude photos of models under exclusive contracts. On Wednesday, his lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to order Google to stop showing images of Perfect 10 models.

Zada sued Google in November 2004, after Google allegedly ailed to respond to 34 notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Zada's beef with Google's image search was that most results led not to Perfect 10, but to rogue sites that posted unauthorized copies of his images.