Media Layoffs

ABC News Layoffs Expected: Memo Says Cuts Part Of 'Transformation'

Posted 05.25.2011

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A heavy round of ABC News layoffs is expected to begin soon as part of a major network transformation. Up to 20 percent of the news division will b...

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Time Inc. To Cut $100 Million From Costs; Extensive Layoffs Are Expected

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time Inc. is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including an...

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Take Me to the Intersection of Poetry and Journalism

Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane Dwyre Garton

Journalists today are often stressed rather than inspired. Bring on the poetry. Bring on new voices. Tell us something that matters with words that tell us about the world, about the human condition.

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Gannett Newspapers Sends Employees Home For Week Of Unpaid Leave

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yowch. Even with the near daily dose of grim news regarding the imminent Death Of All Print media, Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell is correct to...

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What's Wrong with Our Health Care System: #538 of Infinity

Doug Hatt | Posted 11.17.2011

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In order to qualify for this safety-net health insurance coverage, I had to go without any kind of health insurance for anywhere between 45 and 90 days. Not just me, but my wife and baby.

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CNN 'Parts Ways' With In-House Headhunter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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It wasn't long ago that CNN prexy Jon Klein, swimming in $1.1 billion in revenue, was cutting against the gloomy, layoffs-are-coming media landscape b...

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Tina Brown Slams "Feckless Bureaucrats" Ruining Media Companies

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

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The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place. The...

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Miles to Go: CNN Fires Technology Unit, Keeps Ridiculous Technology

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who's been screwed as thoroughly and with as much sheer audacity by CNN over the past few years as Miles O'Brien.

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Star-Ledger Re-Assigns Reporters...To The Mailroom

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yowch! Over at Editor and Publisher, Joe Strupp reports on the latest developments at the financially troubled Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ, where two j...

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