AM LAUNCHES DEFENSE SITE

Atlantic Media is launching Defense One, a digital brand to serve the national security and defense communities, during the summer.

DO is targeting military flag officers, Pentagon civilian staffers, contractors, think tanks, National Security Council staffers and members of the House/Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees.

Its mission is to identify and understand trends that are diving the defense posture of the U.S. in the era of rapid technological change and budget uncertainties.

The site will have an iPhone and Android app by the fall and an e-book series by yearend. A calendar of events will follow.

Justin Smith, president of AM, promises that DO will deliver “disruptive combination of intelligent, indispensable journalism and leading edge digital expertise.”

DO is to be ad-supported. Northrop Grumman is underwriting the inaugural issue.

TULLY TO TAKE OVER DENVER POST

Mac Tully, publisher of the San Jose Mercury News for the past five years, is shifting to president/CEO slot at the Denver Post. Digital Media First owns both properties.

Tully also will take on the corporate executive VP position, overseeing DMF operations in Colorado, Texas and New Mexico.

The Mercury News is in the midst of a major overhaul, centering on the sale of its 36-acre property in San Jose.

NYP OFFERS BUYOUTS

The New York Post is offering voluntary buyouts to newsroom staffer as editor-in-chief Col Allan seeks to slice overhead by 10 percent.

The move comes as the money-losing Post is in the process of being spun off into a separate company composed on News Corp. newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Times of London, The Sun and a collection of Australian papers.

Allan wrote in a staff memo: As we budgeted for the coming fiscal year, we took a careful look at our editorial spending and staffing levels, which have grown slowly over the last decade. It is our intention now to reduce our staffing levels by 10% through this initiative, and other measures if necessary.”

The Daily News, which is the archrival of the Post, has chopped 20 staffers in its own cost-cutting move.