As Many As 2,100 People Have Lost Media Jobs in the Past Two Weeks

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[ameribbean expat]

The start of 2019 has been brutal to the media industry, with as many as 2,100 writers, editors, and other workers losing their jobs in the past two weeks.

On February 1, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Vice Media would be laying off 10 percent of its staff, or approximately 250 workers, as part of a reorganization effort; just hours later, the Miami New Times reported that McClatchy, which operates newspapers across the country, had offered voluntary buyouts to 450 workers. These reports come just one week after Verizon (which owns HuffPost, Yahoo, and AOL) laid off 7 percent of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jason Cherkis; BuzzFeed cut 15 percent of its workforce, decimating entire verticals; and the Gannett Company, which owns more than 1,000 daily and weekly newspapers across the country, eliminated approximately 400 jobs.

[IronJack]

[Sound of hundreds of champagne corks popping ...]

[IronJack]

You forgot to put it in an endless loop.

[Army Air Corps]

You forgot to put it in an endless loop.

Drat! Since I am not a "Journalist," I forgot to make the statement repetitive ad nauseam.

[kempo]

Now that’s what I call draining the swamp.

[seawolf101]

You don’t need any journalists for fake news... Just one guy on social media.

[pepsi_junkie]

Precisely, that's why they can't sustain themselves from subscriber or ad revenues. There must have been some extra source of cash propping them up for all these years. I assume it's government cash because who else can fund all these money pit SJW fake news leaches this long? The fact that they are all exploding in layoffs at the same time is further indication that some free money program just ended for all of them at the some time.

Propagandists for totalitarian wannabes, all of them. Well, they used to be. Now they're between useless jobs. Maybe they can learn to code.

[hal ogen]

My reaction? Bwahahahahahahahaha. Only a business owner who is mentally/intellectually impaired would hire these laid off LIB losers.

[bray]

Maybe the customer is always wrong model is not working?

[grey_whiskers]

Q. What do you call 2,100 journalists in the unemployment line?
A. Not *nearly* enough!

[grey_whiskers]

"...bilingual Latina"

Does that mean what I'm afraid it means? (Now there are jobs even immigrants won't do!)

[jmacusa]

They tried an election recount. That didn’t work. Then they tried the ‘’Russian collusion bit. ‘’Collusion, collusion, collusion’’ and that didn’t work. Then they sent their Antifa goons out into the streets and that didn’t work. And then they tried the porn star slut and that didn’t work. One stupid pet trick after another with these mental midgets on the Left and it’s blowing up in their faces. Antifa were the worst. Real life, modern day Brownshirts. The most laughable(and disgusting) were the ‘’pussy hat’’ protests.’’We don’t know why we’re doing this or for what reason. We just hate Trump’’. Meanwhile the economy is doing great, people have jobs and money in their pockets. Decent people have had enough of these yapping pygmies and want them to shut up. I could care less for these ‘’journalists’’. And I hope Trump does shut the government down again. I care even less that some useless key board tapping government aparatchik loses their cushy tax payer funded job. Welcome to the real world.

[dsrtsage]

Based on nearly every article I read, I was under the impression that they had fired all of the editors decades ago

[Forward the Light Brigade]

How is the anti-Trump mantra working for you media guys? Maybe you can get jobs in Hollywood at ABC or NBC?

[x]

The Huffington Post laid off the whole opinion section. So there are a lot of hacks and hucksters out of work.

In these cases, I don't think it's the editors who are making the cuts, but the corporate people, so having "politically correct" opinions isn't going to save social justice warrior types.

[PhiloBedo]

Now the print media will have to write a fake-news piece with one writer, instead of four.

[PhiloBedo]

Now the print media will have to write a fake-news piece with one writer, instead of four.

[Hardastarboard]

Oh, no!! The quality and veracity of the news we get will decline dramatically after this. /bitter sarc

[Hardastarboard]

I’m not sure they’re qualified.

[Chode]

damn... the coding classes must be full

[GOPJ]

No problem - they can learn to code...