Posted on 06/14/2017 9:53:42 PM PDT by Slyfox
News outlet HuffPost — previously known as the Huffington Post — laid off 39 staffers on Wednesday, a move that follows parent company AOL's acquisition by telecom giant Verizon.
The layoffs come as new editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen is "assembling a newsroom leadership team," according to a HuffPost article reporting on the layoffs. Arianna Huffington, who founded the site in 2005 as the Huffington Post, left the outlet in August.
The 39 employees were represented by the Writers' Guild of America, which released a statement that was tweeted by HuffPost's media reporter. It states that fired employees will receive a severance package including benefits that will last for two months plus one week for each year the employee has been with the company. The layoffs include David Wood, a military reporter who won HuffPost its first Pulitzer Prize in 2012.
The layoffs also included several reporters in HuffPost's Washington, D.C., bureau. HuffPost senior politics editor Sam Stein described the layoffs on Twitter as "a very difficult day."
HuffPost is "also a business, with all that entails," Stein wrote.
Last week, it was reported that Verizon would cut 2,000 jobs across AOL and Yahoo, which are being combined into a new company called Oath. TechCrunch reported that the merger would result in about 15 percent of employees at the two companies being laid off. About 14,000 employees work at AOL and Yahoo.
Will the new boss be the same as the old boss?
Good question. The rats are being forced overboard so lets just hope they don’t clog the drain. At the bottom of the article - Yahoo is having hiccups too.
now the staffers can dedicate all of their time doing Tweeting Trump hate and assassination porn.
Normally, I don’t like to see anyone lose their job.
However, they did say the HuffPost right? Well, maybe I’m OK with it.
Winning!
Spewing nonsense all day is not a job. To hell with them.
Yep, since they are getting severance packages they will have enough money to order pizzas and surf the net all day.
Lots of media people are losing their jobs. They’ve been being used for 8 years to prop up obama. I know a gay liberal former reporter who is one disappointed dude.
There was nothing left to lie about.
There’s just so far people can go calling themselves “journalists,” when they’ve received such brainwashing and political refuse dressed up as coursework in journalism schools and from their hack bosses that they know virtually nothing about the tenets or practice of real journalism. Huffington Post has been a disgraceful propaganda rag, filled with out and out lies and gross distortions. I don’t know whether Huffington herself is fully aware of what an awful publication it was. These so-called journalists have the right to sue the so-called schools of journalism they attended for fraudulently claiming they were teaching them the tenets and proper practice of real journalism. The Huffington Post crowd now laid off are fit for very little that is honest or rigorous or true. If one Huffington Post is failing, so will its spawn.
I HATE YAHOO. Odd thing. Comments are conservative but yahoo is far far left.
I know a guy about to go off to journalism school.
Dumb, you say, right?
Well, he has topped that one off by buying lots of Tesla stock.
Can’t fix stupid—won’t bother trying in his case.
“I HATE YAHOO. Odd thing. Comments are conservative but yahoo is far far left”
Boy isn’t that the truth, Obama still hasn’t gotten off all of ex Yahoo CEO Marisa Mayer’s lipstick of his ass.
LOL
Maybe the public is getting tired of the Democrat Left’s lies, distortions, attacks, untruths, viciousness, inaccuracies, hate, pouting, arrogance, and more.
Beware: This means there will be a lot of needy, self-important, self-medicating unattractive white Millennial women roaming the streets.
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