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BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition
https://www.huffpost.com ^ | 3/09/2021 12:31 pm ET Updated 5 minutes ago | By Sara Boboltz

Posted on 03/09/2021 10:49:45 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/09/2021 10:49:45 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 03/09/2021 10:51:01 AM PST by KC_Lion
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A small victory, but it is a victory.

Now they can find “better jobs”, right Joe?


3 posted on 03/09/2021 10:52:56 AM PST by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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Solar panels or coding.


4 posted on 03/09/2021 10:53:26 AM PST by GnuThere
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Verizon laughing their ass off. "Hey, take AOL off our hands too, nimrods."

Meanwhile HuffPo is short-time because Buzzfeed will implode before the mid-terms.

5 posted on 03/09/2021 10:54:00 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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Are they soliciting suggestions on who should go?


6 posted on 03/09/2021 10:55:17 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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They are searching for an editor in chief for the Huffpost.

I’m sure laying off 47 then hiring and paying a big shot LIB editor in chief 7 figures is going to go over so well with the remaining staff.


7 posted on 03/09/2021 10:58:26 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Red Badger

How about coding Solar Panels.


8 posted on 03/09/2021 10:58:44 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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Wonderful news!
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9 posted on 03/09/2021 10:58:59 AM PST by MountainWalker
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They should keep their cooking section. It’s the only thing they do that isn’t trash.


10 posted on 03/09/2021 10:59:59 AM PST by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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BuzzFEED?

BuzzSAW is more like it.

I APPROVE.


11 posted on 03/09/2021 11:01:01 AM PST by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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I’ve been to Buttfeed offices here in L.A. since 2013. Probably the most condescending bunch of lefty aholes aside from CNN. I’m almost sure they’re trying to get rid of the LEAST leftard of the staff.


12 posted on 03/09/2021 11:01:08 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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It’s hilarious Watching them complain about a “exhaustive” year of covering Covid from home. It must’ve been so difficult to regurgitate the exact same talking points that every other outlet was covering And re-posting it with some slightly different verbiage. Poor things.


13 posted on 03/09/2021 11:03:42 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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So the least hypocritical, least offensive, least assclownish will get terminated then? Best and blightest.


14 posted on 03/09/2021 11:04:23 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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Acquisitions are done on the expectation that redundancies and synergies will result in enough cost savings to pay for the deal. You don’t need two accounting or HR departments for example, and the acquiring company usually keeps and expands theirs while the other one goes away.


15 posted on 03/09/2021 11:05:09 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Trump's Plan. )
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Why would Buzzfeed pay people to not ask questions?


16 posted on 03/09/2021 11:05:29 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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This is the normal course of buiness when two organizations merge under one ownership. I've seen it happen many times in the mortgage banking business when I was in that industry.

Initially, they tell everyone their jobs are safe and just proceed as normal because they don't want to cause a panic or morale issues among the workforce.

But after the new management comes on board and get the lay of the land, they can't avoid eliminating duplication and redundant employees.

After all, most mergers are to save one company from bankruptcy and to accomplish that, jobs, the most costly of all corporate expenses, will have to be trimmed.

I learned to get my resume polished up and sent out as soon as word of a merger was announced. Best to be looking before the floor falls out from under you when it's too late to find a lifesaver.

The HuffPost staff is naive if they didn't see this coming.

17 posted on 03/09/2021 11:05:31 AM PST by HotHunt
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” I’m almost sure they’re trying to get rid of the LEAST leftard of the staff.”

And the least leftard is still a leftard. Enjoy the win.


18 posted on 03/09/2021 11:09:42 AM PST by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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“Hillary Frey, the site’sexecutive editor”

Is she the site’s executive editor, or the site sexecutive editor?

Cuz the second one sounds intriguing...


19 posted on 03/09/2021 11:13:39 AM PST by Boogieman
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Great, now they’ll be running around in Virginia Hats bitching about men nonstop.


20 posted on 03/09/2021 11:16:01 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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