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The Atlantic lays off 68, citing ‘a bracing decline in advertising’
Msn.com ^ | 5/22/20 | Marc Tracy

Posted on 05/22/2020 2:58:53 AM PDT by cotton1706

The Atlantic appeared to have the right ingredients for a successful 21st-century publication: strong journalism, a thriving digital operation and the enthusiastic backing of a multibillionaire, Laurene Powell Jobs.

But on Thursday the 163-year-old publication announced that it would lay off 68 employees, or 17% of its staff, evidence that even the most robust media businesses are vulnerable to the crisis that has ravaged news organizations nationwide.

The announcement followed a burst of layoffs in the news media business last week: 155 jobs lost at Vice, 100 at Condé Nast, 90 at The Economist, 80 at Quartz. The cuts at those companies and publications came in the wake of a free fall set off by the coronavirus pandemic, which has cut deeply into advertising revenue.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biasmeanslayoffs; elections; trysellingthetruth
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To: Da Coyote

Still more qualified than Indian H1B coders


21 posted on 05/22/2020 6:00:45 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: cotton1706

WINNING!


22 posted on 05/22/2020 6:01:20 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: cotton1706
"Learn to code" was funny the first time somebody said it.

It was also an appropriate response to journalists who said that miners and factory workers who got laid off should learn to code.

But the phrase has gotten tired and worn out by now.

Also, at least some of the laid-off employees may have been website developers who presumably already know how to code.

23 posted on 05/22/2020 6:19:09 AM PDT by x
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To: MuttTheHoople

Having flunked out of computer science, they downgraded to J school.

Learning to code has already been abandoned


24 posted on 05/22/2020 6:27:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: cotton1706

Reaping what you progressive libtard idiots have sown. GG.


25 posted on 05/22/2020 8:09:34 AM PDT by cranked
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To: I want the USA back

Gibberish only sells so long?


26 posted on 05/22/2020 8:16:27 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: cotton1706

27 posted on 05/22/2020 8:20:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz (China is the single source of evil in the entire world.)
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To: cotton1706

Who needs workers, all they do is reprint Dem talking points and fake polls.


28 posted on 05/22/2020 8:22:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: cotton1706

Being woke is a drag


29 posted on 05/22/2020 10:10:32 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: cotton1706

The reality is that the entire media industry seems to be absolutely ignorant of the fact that if our country ever becomes what they are trying to make it, the people then in power will dispense with journalist (especially the ones we now have for the most part) because they will know that they can’t trust them.


30 posted on 05/22/2020 1:20:46 PM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: cotton1706

They can show up at the unemployment office wearing a mask or on job interviews.


31 posted on 05/22/2020 4:22:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: cotton1706

Businesses that are closed can’t afford or do not need advertising? Who knew?


32 posted on 05/22/2020 4:28:04 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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