Last.fm Lays Off Around 20 Staff, Part Of CBS/CNET Integration
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– News International: Six months after effectively shutting down its magazines division, News International has sold the remnants, essentia… Read more »
Recruitment Site CareerBuilder Lays Off 300
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As Yahoo Layoffs Start Today, More May Come Soon; Six Offices Closed in Europe
By Rafat Ali
As Yahoo’s 1,500 or so layoffs are happening today (see the layoffs BB site SAI for wall-to-wall coverage), more such reductions may be comi… Read more »
NPR Laying Off 64 Employees, 7 Percent of Staff; Cancels Two Programs
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Even NPR, which is underwritten by user contributions, station fees and sponsors, isn’t sheltered from the economic crisis, despite its audi… Read more »
Newsquest Shutting 11 Local Papers Across UK, At Least 23 Staff Affected
By Patrick Smith
It’s genuine tin hat time for regional newspapers, and none more so than for Gannett-owned Newsquest, which is slashing editorial and commer… Read more »
Yahoo Layoffs To Start Tomorrow
By Rafat Ali
So say a number of reports: this is the 1500 job cuts announced in October, and even though the situation has worsened since then, no major… Read more »
Industry Moves: ManiaTV Bulks Up Leadership After Layoffs
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ManiaTV has bulked up its management team: adding six seasoned vets from companies like Disney (NYSE: DIS), NBC and Joost just a few weeks a… Read more »
Newspaper Round-Up: Express Ad Sales, HTFP Publisher, Johnston Restructure, Telegraph Writers Leave
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MLBAM Lays Off 20; Bowman: Savings Will Help Offset Plans To Cut Prices By At Least 20 Percent
paidContent has learned that Major League Baseball Advanced Media laid off 20 of its 400-plus staff today, roughly 3-4 percent, with origina… Read more »
Newsday Cuts 100 — And Hikes Its Price
By David Kaplan
Just because Newsday is now owned by a cable company instead of a newspaper publisher doesn’t mean it can escape the inevitable. The Long Is… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: Tribune Cuts 11; Bakersfield Cuts 25; Scripps To Sell Rocky Mountain News
By Rafat Ali
– Chicago Tribune cuts 11 jobs: As part of those layoffs, The Tribune Company flagship is also letting its two New York correspondents go.… Read more »
Gloom Watch: ClearChannel Layoffs, Johnston Pay Freeze
– ClearChannel: A clear sign the economy is hurting advertising. The ad placer’s outdoor division is axing 80 of its 850 UK staff to put it… Read more »
Yell Scraps Mobile Division As Part Of £100 Million Restructure
By Patrick Smith
Local listings directory business Yell is merging its mobile division into its main digital department as part of a £100 million restruct… Read more »
RealNetworks CEO Glaser Offers More Details On Layoffs
In the wake of the layoff of 7.5 percent of RealNetworks’ staff, Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO, sent an internal memo now posted at AllThings… Read more »
Entertainment Trades: About 17 Layoffs at THR; Variety Closes DC Bureau; What About Print?
By Rafat Ali
The bloodbath in media continues, and this time, at the West Coast entertainment trades. We have learned that Hollywood Reporter has done a… Read more »
NBC Layoffs Well Underway; 500 Across Company; 17 From iVillage
In October, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker served notice that the company would cut costs by some $500 million, or 3 percent of th… Read more »
McGrath’s Memo: What Cuts Mean For MTVN — Without The Specifics
Here’s the full text of the memo from MTVN (NYSE: VIA) chairman and CEO Judy McGrath to her staff regarding layoffs and restructuring. It’s… Read more »
NBCU Layoffs Target 30 in Ad Sales
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The weakening ad market has NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) taking the cleaver to 30 ad sales positions, AdAge reports, citing unidentified sources… Read more »
Viacom Slashing Staff By 7 Percent; Will Take Charge Of At Least $400 Million In Q4, Internal Memo
In another sign of the times, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) will cut roughly 850 jobs, approximately 7 percent of the company’s workforce across all di… Read more »
BBC Scotland Axes 70 Production And News Staff
By Patrick Smith
BBC Scotland is to making 70 staff at its Glasgow HQ redundant as part of on-going restructuring plans, including 20 in news and current aff… Read more »
AT&T Cutting 12,000 Jobs, But Plans To Staff Up In Wireless
By David Kaplan
AT&T (NYSE: T) is shedding 12,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce, as it seeks to rein in costs in the face of the worsening economy. Wi… Read more »
AT&T Cutting 12,000 Jobs, But Plans To Staff Up In Wireless
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AT&T (NYSE: T) is shedding 12,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce, as it seeks to rein in costs in the face of the worsening economy. Wi… Read more »
Adobe To Cut 600 Jobs, Focus More On Web Video
By Rafat Ali
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is cutting about 600 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, citing the economic slowdown. Sales for its Creative Suite 4 pa… Read more »
Glasgow Herald Staff Must Reapply For Jobs In Multimedia Restructure
By Patrick Smith
Newsquest’s Herald & Times Group in Glasgow is making 235 journalists redundant and telling them to apply for a reduced number of altered jo… Read more »
Cancel That Reservation: Restaurant Reviewer Zagat Lays Off 19
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Restaurant guide Zagat has laid off 19 staffers, or about 14 percent of its 130-person workforce, a company rep said, confirming an earlier… Read more »
Library House VC Tracker Lets Staff Go As Deals Dry Up
Library House, a data gatherer whose online products offer intelligence on VC deals and innovative venture-backed European companies, is its… Read more »
More Layoffs: BBC Resources Cutting 210; Revoo, Archant Mull Savings
BBC Resources is laying off 210 of its 740 staff in a further restructure of Auntie’s commercial post-production and studios business. The B… Read more »
Apocalypse Soon? Forecast Says Half Of UK Media Jobs To Disappear By 2013
Some thoroughly depressing news to start Monday morning: the founder of UK media research agency Enders expects the number of media jobs in… Read more »
Apocalypse Soon? Half Of Media Jobs To Disappear By 2013: Forecast
Some thoroughly depressing news to start Monday morning – the founder of media research agency Enders expects the number of jobs in the UK i… Read more »
Layoffs Round-Up: Telegraph, Trinity Mirror, Adconion All Make Cuts
By Patrick Smith
Thursday was a day among days for the UK newspaper industry and its on-going process of cutting staff and restructuring as newsrooms across… Read more »
Time Magazine To Consolidate Global Editions, European Edition To Be Edited In New York
By Patrick Smith
Following Time Inc’s announcement of 600 redundancies, Time magazine is reshuffling its global editions, a move that will take the editing o… Read more »
C4 Revising 4iP Timetable; Christmas Job Cuts, But Kangaroo Unaffected
Channel 4 may alter its timetable for making investments from its 4iP digital fund, as it sits out the downturn and goes through its cost-cu… Read more »
BBC Local Postscript: We Never Wanted To Do Hyperlocal Anyway
By Patrick Smith
It’s a sad mark of the misunderstanding that characterised the BBC’s local video proposal that Auntie is only now able to be understood on w… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Yell.com’s Local Sites, MEN Goes Behavioural, More Local Press Cuts
By Patrick Smith
– Yell.com: The listings directory publisher is seizing the opportunity (or at least the PR) left by the BBC Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: More Layoffs, BreakingViews, CarDesignNews, Time
– Trinity Mirror: Redundancies are being sought at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, the publisher tells J.co.uk, after rumours Trinity wan… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: USAT; McClatchy; Journal Comm
By David Kaplan
– USAT cuts 20 newsroom jobs: While Gannett’s flagship has been spared much of the company’s heavy job cuts of the past few months, USA Tod… Read more »
BBC Local Ruling Will Force Auntie To Make Redundancies
The BBC will be forced to cut jobs after its regulator blocked its proposal to add video bulletins to its local websites. BBC Wales controll… Read more »
Layoff Watch: Time Europe; Salon; Buzznet; Sezmi
By Tameka Kee
– Time Europe : As part of its big round of layoffs this week, Time Inc. let go of about 20 editorial staff from Time Europe, or nearly two… Read more »
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