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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Still more qualified than Indian H1B coders
WINNING!
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.
Having flunked out of computer science, they downgraded to J school.
Learning to code has already been abandoned
Reaping what you progressive libtard idiots have sown. GG.
Gibberish only sells so long?
Who needs workers, all they do is reprint Dem talking points and fake polls.
Being woke is a drag
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.
They can show up at the unemployment office wearing a mask or on job interviews.
Businesses that are closed can’t afford or do not need advertising? Who knew?
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