Posted on 07/14/2020 2:03:21 PM PDT by dynachrome
Vox Media, the owner of media properties including New York Magazine, The Verge, SBNation and Eater, has informed its worker unions to prepare for company-wide layoffs, according to people familiar with the matter.
Vox spoke with union leaders Monday to inform them of their plan to cut staff, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. Vox furloughed about 100 employees in April, or 9% of its staff, until July 31 as Covid-19 affected advertising budgets.
Many of the furloughed workers who haven’t already taken buyouts will be laid off, according to a person familiar with the matter. These employees primarily work for parts of Vox that were especially hit hard by the Pandemic, such as SBNation, Curbed and the company’s events group. There may be some additional job cuts, the person said.
Both the Writers Guild of America, East, which represents about 350 of Vox’s 1,200 employees, and NewsGuild of New York, which represents New York Magazine employees, are meeting with executives this week, two of the people said. Vox hopes to resolve those discussions by Friday, one of the people said.
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Well said!
Nice seeing a Fake News source start to fall apart
When are the New York Times layoffs or CNNs?
Aren’t these all online venues so why would covid be the reason since people can still access online stuff?
Learn to Code, Bishes!
Vox was so clearly a leftist, statist, propoganda-rag from the start, I have trouble believing it ever really existed to “make money.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually find out its merely a front organization, 100% funded by George Soros, the CIA or some other group with deep pockets.
Dear Vox Employees: learn to code.
Sure would like to find out how many businesses failed in WA along with bankruptcy’s and home foreclosures.
THANK YOU, finally, for some good COVID-related news.
I’m really heartbroken to hear they will not be able to pump their garbage stories out anymore. Oh, the huge manatee!
Please lock the door and turn-off the lights at VOX.
That’s a shame.
TYSON is probably hiring robot programmers and maintenance techies for their mechanized abattoir.
Good riddance to Vox.
Ok, dumb question: Vox is purely an online business, is it not? So what does the covid farce have to do with them? Is the real issue the fact that they’re liberal crap isn’t selling?
The problem then is that their ‘reporters’ and ‘writers’ can’t go out and get material - and nobody returns their calls.
For example, it’s pretty hard to do restaurant reviews if the restaurant is closed.
Ping.
I’m SO SAD.........
SMIRK
Good sign for the election regardless of the polls. Kinda shows how many (or few) TDS types there really are out there if Vox couldn’t stay in business due to inadequate ad revenue.
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