Los Angeles Times Layoffs Will Dissolve Over 10% of Its Newsroom
thewrap.comin the email. “Collectively, we have done a vast amount of work as a company to meet the budget and revenue challenges head on.
But that work will need acceleration and we will need more radical transformation in the newsroom for us to become a self-sustaining enterprise.”The company restructuring will get rid of 74 roles, with 500 people remaining according to spokeswoman Hillary Manning, who told the New York Times.Reporting positions will remain intact, but other full-time and temporary workers will be cut.
Supporting staff like managing editors, editors on the news and copy desks, audience engagement team members, and audio producers will be let go.“Decisions that result in talented staffers losing their jobs are agonizing,” Merida wrote. “We will be saying goodbye to some tremendous colleagues.”The layoffs mark the first significant downsizing since Dr.
Patrick Soon-Shiong and his wife Michele bought the newspaper five years ago from Tribune Publishing, which no longer exists.
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