Southern California Public Radio announced on Tuesday that it would be eliminating 12% of the staff and joining Dot.LA. The AthleticMorning Consult with its recent layoffs is just the latest of a series of brutal closures and job cuts that will be affecting the media industry by 2023.
Southern California Public Radio announced it would cut 21 of the company’s 175 positions, which CEO Herb Scannell attributed to a decline in studio advertising—Scannell said the nonprofit will focus more on online news.
Dot.LAEmployees of a Los Angeles-based startup company were informed in a staff memo it would cut all seven members of its editorial staff in an effort to shift toward creating a newsletter focused on “profiling and highlighting” Los Angeles tech companies.
The AthleticThe. New York Times A staff memo informed employees that the U.S. news giant acquired for $550m last year plans to cut down 20 positions (roughly 4.4% of its workforce) while 20 other reporters will be transferred to new beats.
Morning Consult, a polling and data reporting company, announced it would close its newsroom while cutting seven of its editorial staff, according to a company spokesperson, as the company moves forward with “unifying and scaling our analyst team.”
It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Los Angeles Times announced it would be cutting 74 positions in its newsroom, including editors on its news and copy desks in addition to both full-time and temporary workers, because of the “economic climate and the unique challenges of our industry.”
Bustle Digital Group laid off 21 employees, an estimated 5% of its workforce, after the company—which owns lifestyle brands Nylon, Bustle and Inverse, among others—struggled with advertising, according to Adweek.
Spotify Vice President Sahar Elhabashi announced the company would cut 200 employees—2% of its workforce—as it moves forward with a plan to combine podcast units Gimlet Media and Parcast, following about 600 reported layoffs earlier this year.
Fox News dissolved its investigative unit amid an effort to cut costs following the network’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, network employees told Rolling Stone The settlement (though one network source denied that there was a link between the layoffs, and the settlement), and New York Daily News Reports state that three employees were laid off and four others moved to different positions.
MTV News was shut down as Paramount Media Networks—a division of Paramount Global—announced it would cut 25% of its staff because of “pressure from broader headwinds like many of our peers,” according to a company memo obtained by Variety.
Vice Media The company will cut more than 100 jobs and close down the Vice World News brand. Wall Street JournalThe once-promising media company has faced financial challenges over the years.
ESPN According to a memo from Jimmy Pitaro, the network’s president, the Sports News Network will begin laying off an unspecified amount of employees. However, the layoffs are primarily affecting management positions. Sports Business JournalVice President of Communications Mike Soltys Russell Wolff is the man in charge of ESPN+, which allows users to stream content.
Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti told Buzzfeed News Staff the online publication was to be closed down, according a memo The Obtaining of New York Times, as the company shifts toward “concentrating our news efforts” on HuffPost, an outlet the company notes is “profitable.”
Insider Inc.—formerly known as Business Insider—announced it would begin cutting an estimated 10% of its staff in an effort to “keep our company healthy and competitive,” an Insider spokesperson told Forbes.
Disney’s broadcast news division announced it was laying 50 people at ABC NewsAfter an earlier announcement made by CEO Bob Iger that the company would continue a round of ongoing layoffs,
Salem Media Group, a Texas based Christian radio broadcaster RadioInsight reports that it announced it would layoff about 3% its 1,436 workers.
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NPR canceled four podcasts—Invisibilia: Louder Than a Riot Rough Translation The following are some examples of how to get started: Everyone and their Mom—and bean laying off 100 employees as part of a push to reduce a reported budget deficit of $30 million.
NPR affiliate New England Public Media announced it will lay off 17 employees—20% of its staff—by March 31 after facing “serious financial headwinds during the last three years,” New England Public Media management tells Boston public radio.
Sea Coast Media and Gannett, a media conglomerate with hundreds of papers and Sea Coast Media’s parent company, laid off 34 people and closed a printing press in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as part of Gannet’s efforts to reduce the number of operating presses and prioritize digital platforms.
Three Alabama newspapers—The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times Then, there is the Press-Register—laid off 100 people following a prolonged decrease in print paper circulation, Alabama Media Group President Tom Bates told NPR.
New York public radio station WNYC Cancelled radio show Takeaway after 15 years on air after the show reportedly became too expensive to produce amid a declining audience—a reported 12, including host Melissa Harris-Perry, will lose their jobs.
News CorpWho owns the Wall Street Journal Robert Thomson, chief executive of HarperCollins, reportedly informed investors that the company expects to cut 1,250 jobs across its businesses by the year 2023. Thomson said this after a steep decline in profits.
It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Washington Post stops publishing its video game and kids sections, laying off 20 people a little over a month after publisher Fred Ryan foreshadowed layoffs in 2023—executive editor Sally Buzbee reportedly told employees the layoffs were geared toward staying competitive and no more are scheduled.
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Vox Media, which owns The Verge, SB Nation and New York Magazine, laid off 133 people—7% of the media conglomerate’s staff—in anticipation of a declining economy, chief executive Jim Bankoff reportedly tells staff.
Entertainment companys and fan platforms Fandom The layoffs at Giant Bomb, Metacritic, TV Guide and GameSpot are less than 50. Variety Reports are coming in just a few months after Fandom purchased the four outlets and others for $55 Million.
The Medford (Oregon)-based Mail Tribune shut down their digital publication after hiring difficulties and declining advertising sales, according to publisher and chief executive Steven Saslow—an undisclosed number of people were laid off and severance packages depend on signing a non-disclosure agreement, the Oregonian reports.
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Gannett As part of the increased focus on digital journalism, 108 people were laid off after a printing plant in Greece, New York was closed.
Gannett laid off 50 employees at an Indiana printing press to “adapt to industry conditions,” a spokesperson told the Indiana Star—the press remains open and the layoffs aren’t expected to affect newspaper employees.
Nate Silver is the founder of Disney-owned FiveThirtyEight, tweeted on April 25 that Disney’s layoffs had “substantially impacted” the data-focused news site, suggesting his contract is up soon and he expects to “be leaving at the end of it.” Silver—who is best-known for his site’s election predictions—sold FiveThirtyEight to Disney subsidiary ESPN in 2013, after previously working at the New York Times.