Journos sound alarm as coronavirus-related layoff wave starts to hit media outlets

Twitchy ^ | May 15, 2020 | Doug P.

[kevcol]

Everybody’s painfully aware that the economy has been taking a huge hit the last couple of months because of lockdowns related to the coronavirus outbreak. But now the layoff wave is starting to crash across the bow of the media, and it’s causing some alarms to go off:

Over just three days, Condé Nast, Quartz and VICE gutted their newsrooms with layoffs. This is a historically bad year for digital and local journalism.

[kevcol]

Condé Nast: 100 layoffs + 100 furloughs
BuzzFeed: ~ 20 furloughs
Quartz: 80 layoffs
Vice: 155 layoffs
The Economist: 90 layoffs


335 media jobs eliminated. 120 jobs tbd

[ronnie raygun]

The enquirer wont even hire these pukes

[joma89]

I think they should ‘Learn to code’.

JoMa

[Psalm 73]

Almost as sad as seeing lawyers get laid off.

[Drango]

Bummer. /not

[Candor7]

Hopefully coming soon to CNN, ABC ,MSNLSD , Washington Boast and the New York Slimes.

[Caipirabob]

I’d like to think this impacted those who promoted panic to drive down our economy. It would be utterly appropriate the monstrous lies they promoted finally impacts them.

[Drango]

Learn to code coal mine.

[metmom]

NOW we’ll see the lock downs end.

Now that it’s affecting the elites.

[I want the USA back]

Good. I hope all the lefty rags go bankrupt.

[Notthereyet]

Not sad, at all to see them being let go.

I wish it were in the 10s of thousands that were being let go.

Let them live the crap they push for the Democrat party.

[ptsal]

They will default on their student loans and, then, discover that bankruptcy will not help them shed their student debt.

[V_TWIN]

“Condé Nast, Quartz and VICE”

WHO??

I guess I am now one of those old people I used to make fun of for being out of touch. Lol

[Ron H.]

Hard to have any sympathy because as a profession they brought it onto themselves with all their hyped fear mongering and spreading the lies of the NWO types.

[JudgemAll]

Same with idiot SEIU types who got hammered with the confinement of their democrat betters.

[kevcol]

Conde Nast publishes:

Architectural Digest
Allure
Ars Technica
Bon Appétit
Condé Nast Johansens
Condé Nast Traveler
Epicurious
Glamour
GQ
GQ Style
House & Garden
La Cucina Italiana
Love
L'Uomo
Pitchfork
Self
Tatler
Teen Vogue
them
The New Yorker
The World of Interiors
Vanity Fair
Vogue
Vogue Business
Vogue Global Network
Wired

[V_TWIN]

Thank you for that. I don’t see any of those impacting the world negatively if they weren’t available......do you?

[SkyPilot]

Condé Nast: 100 layoffs + 100 furloughs BuzzFeed: ~ 20 furloughs Quartz: 80 layoffs Vice: 155 layoffs The Economist: 90 layoffs

What a tragedy! And for you 36 million Americans who have lost their jobs, pray for these elite "journalists"!

[kevcol]

I don’t see any of those impacting the world negatively if they weren’t available......do you?

It would be a big positive for some of those to disappear...permanently.

[moovova]

I’m still too devastated by the news organization Playboy announcing the end of their printed magazine to really care about this.