Layoffs Signal the Beginning of the End for El Diario, the oldest Spanish Language Newspaper in the United States

Layoffs were announced in what appears to be the beginning of the end for the nation's oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper.

On December 30 ImpreMedia management sent the New York News Guild a notice of plans to lay off roughly half of all employees this month at El Diario, a 102-year-old newspaper.

At an event last year, a former ImpreMedia CEO said El Diario would soon shut down.

The Guild says that the notice was issued before January 1 and violated a contract extension made in 2014.

Guild representatives are meeting with ImpreMedia management next week.