Tribune Publishing will take a charge of $47 million to buy out about 500 employees—7 percent of its current workforce—across its daily newspaper companies in an effort to cut longer-term costs. The Chicago-based company also disclosed that it shed 298 workers earlier this year, bringing its headcount reduction for 2015 to roughly 800 people, or almost 10 percent of its workforce. Tribune Publishing didn't report the number of employees leaving the Chicago Tribune, but as many as 100 people locally had volunteered for the buyouts, according to employees.