Posted on 11/30/2024 4:41:28 AM PST by Libloather
Hearst Magazines, the publisher of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Esquire, has fired around 200 employees — most of whom work at the company’s iconic headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.
The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), the union which represents thousands of media professionals, told the news site W42ST that the total number of layoffs amounted to 197 people — 67 of whom were members of the Hearst Union bargaining unit.
The union also told W42ST that “most affected workers are based at Hearst Tower” on 8th Avenue and 57th Street on Manhattan’s West Side.
Hearst Tower, which rises nearly 600 feet and 46 stories high, is a Norman Foster-designed triangular glass skyscraper known for its sleek, environmentally friendly layout.
The tower was constructed in 2006 atop the original Hearst Magazine Building, whose facade was designated as a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1988.
Debi Chirichella, the president of the company, circulated a memo to employees announcing the layoffs last week.
“After a thorough review of our business, we’ve decided to reallocate resources to better support our goals and continue our focus on digital innovation while strengthening our best in class print products,” Chirichella wrote in the memo, which was reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
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My eyes are dry. Why can I not weep in the face of such tragedy! What demon has possessed my to make me smile so?
I guess this means having really expensive lunches and living in Manhattan just got a bit more difficult for those laid off. So sad!
City must have offered them a nice penny to house those illegals
Why?
Making do with fewer people — and more generative AI?
The laid off folks have more time now to practice “Good Housekeeping” at home.
Lol.
To make an omelet you must break a few eggs folks.
The yet to be replaced corporate management.
No! it’s fake news/woke backlash stupid.
Those who have a brain.
Ijust stopped using Mozilla Firefox because they have some AI thing taking up space on the screen, and when I tried to get rid of it, the only thing I could do was move from the left to the right. I guess the programmers at Firefox never heard the expression “vote with your feet”
-——Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Esquire——
The readers of which are either dead or dying.
Magazines were, more were even than cable TV
Brave too now.
That’s ok; these liberals can always get jobs with the federal government, like NPR or PBS which are taxpayer funded. Of course, now, maybe not, since hopefully their budgets will be cut to zero.
They can’t even give magazines away.
Shakespeare quote?
especially if one has prehensile toes.
No, not a Shakespeare quote. However I was imagining myself as on actor on stage mocking a Zeeper audience.
Well met, sir!
That is what they get for lying about the Maine.
A lot of this is just changing technology. I spoke recently to people who produce two slick, monthly, high color regional business magazines.
The mags are almost 100% produced by two talented women on their computers.
More than 400 Condé Nast staffers stage one-day walkout to protest layoffs
By Liam Reilly, CNN
January 23, 2024
Vogue took a hit earlier in the year.
The protest comes after Condé Nast announced on November 1 it was planning to cut 5% of its workforce. The company then revised the plan, announcing it would lay off 94 unionized members, or some 20% of the Condé Nast Union.
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