The Los Angeles Times is cutting about 13% of its newsroom staff, becoming the latest news organization to contract amid economic pressures brought on by advertising and print readership declines.
The Los Angeles Times is cutting its newsroom staff, becoming the latest news organization to contract amid economic pressures brought on by advertising and print readership declines.Full-time and temporary workers will be let go, including a handful of managers. Reporting positions are expected to be spared but support staff will be trimmed, including editors on the news and copy desks as well as the audience engagement team. Some audio producers will also be cut.
ago from Tribune Publishing, a company that no longer exists. Since then, The Times’ newsroom has been largely protected from massive layoffs that have hobbled many other news outlets. Since then, The Times has struggled to recover financially amid an industrywide slowdown in advertising sales and subscriptions.BuzzFeed, once a rising star in digital media, has undergone major cuts in recent years as digital-native brands struggle to create sustainable business models.
The move comes just weeks after The Times celebrated two Pulitzer Prizes. The staff was honored for its coverage last fall of the Los Angeles City Hall scandal after a leaked audio recording revealed casual racist banter by three then-Council members. The Times also won for feature photography.
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