Posted on 01/24/2024 6:30:10 AM PST by Red Badger
The Los Angeles Times announced over 100 journalists would be laid off Tuesday as the media outlet lost as much as $40 million a year, according to multiple outlets.
The newspaper will reduce its newsroom staff by 20%, one of the biggest cuts in its 142-year history, the outlet’s Meg James reported. Among those who were axed included the chief and deputy chief of the paper’s Washington, D.C., bureau, along with its business editor, the music editor and books editor.
Two of the paper’s four managing editors resigned prior to the announcement of the layoffs, adding to the uncertainty around the media outlet, according to CNN. Other outlets, including the Washington Post, Vox and Yahoo News, made cuts in 2023, CNN reported in December.
“We have a billionaire who doesn’t understand media and thinks he can cut his way to success,” one staffer told CNN’s Oliver Darcy.
“I cannot overstate the level of chaos,” a second staffer told the CNN media reporter.
A previous round of layoffs in June reduced the newsroom staff by about 13%, NPR reported, with 74 people being laid off.
Staffers at the paper walked out Friday to protest the planned cuts, according to CNN. The L.A. Times Guild did not respond to Tuesday’s announcement, but ripped the previous layoffs in a statement in June.
“Today’s decision is painful for all, but it is imperative that we act urgently and take steps to build a sustainable and thriving paper for the next generation. We are committed to doing so,” owner Patrick Soon-Shiong told James Tuesday, noting that the paper was suffering annual losses of between $30 and $40 million a year.
“The decision to proceed with layoffs was incredibly difficult, and was made only after evaluating all other viable options,” a spokesperson for the outlet told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Los Angeles Times newsroom remains the largest in the West and one of the largest in the country, and our ambitious journalism will continue.”
The failing New York Times.
...Donald J. Trump
I lived in LA for 40 years and never bothered reading the Times. It was a leftwing rag even back in 1976 when I moved there.
They’d have been far better off had they printed the truth, i.e., REAL news.
Print media is dying.
What am I supposed to line my bird cage with now?
You hire a bunch of kids who print lies and it takes 5 of them to produce swill no one with two functioning brain cells will believe and then are surprised when no one is interested in what you are selling.
Print the truth, write in-depth articles that are interesting and assign only one person to write them.
Unfortunately, in the 1980s, journalism became so dedicated to pushing the Left’s ideas and claims that they abandoned objectivity and truth as a tenet of their profession. In effect, journalists became propagandists for the Left and for the Democratic Party as its political instrument.
HA HA! Maybe write news instead of Deep State Demoncrat DooDoo?
Believe it or not, the LA Times was once a conservative paper and one of the few big newspapers to endorse Barry Goldwater for president in 1964.
I’d say “learn to code”, but it seems AI has that covered. Maybe “learn to OnlyFans”.
So long as they keep shoveling the (FED-fed) narrative manure (like all other MSM sewer pipes) the “controlling interests” will keep shoveling them cash.
I knew someone would come up with the Seinfeld thing. 😆
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I can’t remember a single LAT article that was ever used as a reference for anything.
“Dozens”, it needs to be all.
LA Times = Liberals Notional Enquirer
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