Posted on 02/05/2019 10:35:58 AM PST by 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.
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Nice start..
That’s a GREAT success statistic for tonight!
No, journalists have not been laid off. Professional hucksters have been laid off.
Outstanding. Now they’ll have to get real jobs.
Trend will continue through 2020 election year. The problem here is that there is no fallback job field for journalists. With the large number looking for employment....employers know that they can reset the pay-scale and force you to take a 20-percent pay-cut.
Great, they can all go to community college, learn a useful trade.
That was W’s advice which actually irked me even worse than Obama’s “learn to code.”
They should learn to code...
2,100 liars and left wing propagandists have lost their jobs.
Yes, that qualifies as winning. Bigly.
The world only needs just so many Starbucks baristas.
As Man As?
I’d say ‘Only...............................
Outstanding. Now they’ll have to get real jobs.
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Naw, they’ll all wind up teaching in academia.
I assume that whatever Obama era program that fed them money must have finally expired and now, unable to pay their bills without free government money, they have to either get new readers or cut staff dramatically. The only way to get new readers would be to actually try to appeal to people other than SJW bwownshirts and that’s not going to happen. So sorry, propegandists, learn to code.
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I bet Skippy Podesta still has his job.
“The problem here is that there is no fallback job field for journalists..”
Waste Management is hiring garbage people.
I’m afraid you’re probably right.
They could learn to code.
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