Posted on 03/30/2023 9:09:45 AM PDT by abb
The Disney layoffs have hit ABC News.
The broadcast news division has laid off approximately 50 people as part of the company’s planned cuts, with ABC News president Kim Godwin reorganizing her senior leadership team. Godwin announced the changes in a note to staff Thursday morning.
“Throughout the company, teams are being impacted by the downsizing that was announced several weeks ago, including our own ABC News family. While these actions are never easy, they are a necessary step to ensure we’re on solid footing for the years ahead as we chart a sustainable, growth-oriented path forward for the entire organization,” Godwin wrote. “While this is a difficult time for all of us – particularly those directly affected by these tough decisions – it’s important to remember that together, we are resilient, and will emerge from this period of transition stronger than before.”
The new structure will see Katie den Daas become VP of newsgathering; Derek Medina adding oversight of talent strategy, production operations and business affairs; and Stacia Deshishku adding oversight of investigative and enterprise reporting, as well as booking.
As part of the changes a number of senior ABC News staffers are leaving the company, including senior VP of newsgathering Wendy Fisher; senior VP of talent Galen Gordon; VP of talent Mary Noonan; VP of corporate communications Alison Rudnick; senior executive producer Chris Vlasto; executive editorial producer Heather Riley and Los Angeles bureau chief David Herndon.
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I would fire David Muir FIRST.
“While his salary hasn’t been publicly declared by ABC, he is reported to be receiving a salary of between $5-$7million per year.”
There has to be some person that can read the teleprompter and pay $250K that will do just as good of a job.
News broadcasters (particularly the higher paid ones at the network level) are vetted by testing them with focus groups.
If they can convince the majority of focus group viewers that 1 + 1 = 3 on a consistent basis they are hired.
It is the skill of the sociopath.
That will be the first job AI takes away. Almost five years ago, China introduced an AI news reader. Think how much better it has gotten today.
So many YouTube videos are now narrated by robots which drives me nuts.
Die, Marxists die!
lol, humor wins every time.
Firing the janitors will free up more money for the Mult-million dollar propagandists.
Licensing an AI would be even cheaper.
Eisner, Iger, Chapek have made hundreds and hundreds of millions for themselves while producing bad product and firing thousands of people.
LOL My fave is when Sam had a chance to ask Margret Thatcher ANYTHING he wanted, he asked if she thought Tonya Harding should be allowed to skate in the Olympics.
Katie den Daas become VP of newsgathering
Getting the fax from the DNC off the fax machine is tough work. Worth six figure salary at least.
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