Hasta La Creative!

The cancellation of “Tell Me More,” which was meant to attract more listeners of color, comes as NPR tries to close a $6 million deficit.

Project Thunderdome, an ambitious effort to provide articles to 75 newsrooms owned by Digital First Media, will be shut down as the company looks to cut costs and focus on local news.

The layoffs came as a result of Disney’s decision to combine two businesses: booming mobile games and sagging social games.

The dismissal is the latest change in a tumultuous year for the struggling FM station.

The job cuts, said to affect 500 employees, are part of a corporate restructuring as the company is spun off from its parent, Time Warner.

Aaron Kushner, publisher of The Orange County Register, has been playing hardball against distressed competitors and lustily grabbing for a bigger footprint.

Tribune, which is making itself into a broadcast company, said the layoffs would affect mostly the business side of the newspapers.

The video-rental chain Blockbuster will close the 300 stores that it still has in the next two months, said the company’s owner, Dish Network.

The cuts, expected to affect about 150 employees, follows an announcement last month that the company would scrap plans to expand into consumer news.

The public radio organization’s board approved the buyout plan while also naming an interim chief executive, Paul G. Haaga Jr.