FT To Make Redundancies, Cut From Research Library: Report
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Jerry Yang’s Memo About Yahoo Layoffs: Uncertainty For Next Several Weeks
By Rafat Ali
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang has sent out a memo outlining the cost cutting and layoffs at Yahoo, announced with its Q3 earnings today… Read more »
Earnings: Yahoo Will Cut Staff By At Least 10 Percent During Q4; Hoping To Save $400 Million
The much-talked about Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) layoffs are now official: it will slash its workforce internationally by at least 10 percent during… Read more »
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Nielsen Reorgs Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek; Layoffs; Why Three Anymore?
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As we and others had reported before, Nielsen Business Media has announced a reorg of its Adweek Media Group, which consists of their three… Read more »
C4 Closes Digital Sales House 4DS, Part Of £100 Million Cost Cuts
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Online video site Veoh, backed by about $70 million in funding including from Michael Eisner, did about 15 layoffs from its St Petersburg, R… Read more »
Yahoo Planning Major Job Cuts; Could Be Above Thousand
By Rafat Ali
Various reports are pointing to an inevitable move by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to cut a good number of jobs, as many as above thousand. This comes… Read more »
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More Layoffs: Heavy.com Shedding 12 More Employees
By Rafat Ali
Heavy.com, the NYC-based online video site aimed at young men, has laid off about 20 more employees, after doing a round of cuts in June, wh… Read more »
Following Warning About Reining In Costs, Adbrite Cuts 40 Jobs
By David Kaplan
Self-serve ad network AdBrite is cutting 40 staffers from its 100-person workforce, Techcrunch reports. VP Marketing Paul Levine, who had of… Read more »
Fast Company Lays Off 20 As Digital Folds Into Print Operations; Sussman Leaving
Layoffs at Mansueto Ventures, specifically the digital side of Fast Company, the result, we’re told, of a decision to fold Mansueto Digital… Read more »
Channel 4 Abandons Digital Radio Plans To Help Save £100 Million
By Patrick Smith
Channel 4 has abandoned all plans to launch a series of DAB radio stations next year because of the economic downturn, report FT.com and Med… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: LAT; Star-Ledger; East Valley Tribune; Cleveland Plain Dealer
By David Kaplan
– LAT slashes 75 editorial jobs: Editors at the Tribune Company paper met over the weekend to draw up lists of those whose jobs would be cu… Read more »
Newsquest Cutting Print Staff, Adding ‘Multimedia Journalists’
By Dianne See Morrison
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By Joseph Weisenthal
Gawker Media’s Nick Denton is taking a defensive crouch ahead of the gathering economic storm. In a memo to staff (first posted by SAI), Den… Read more »
Nielsen Explores Companywide Editorial Reorg; Layoffs Coming
By David Kaplan
B2B publisher Nielsen Business Media is putting together a new content strategy for its 40 magazine properties, Folio reports. Nielsen, whic… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: NAA; Fairfax; Star-Ledger; Spokesman-Review
By David Kaplan
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ITV Cutting 1,000 Jobs, More Cuts Coming From Technology
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Lee’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lays Off 20; Second Round In As Many Months
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The week ends with word of more job losses in the troubled newspaper industry. Lee Enterprises’ St. Louis Post-Dispatch cut 20 jobs on Frida… Read more »
Glam Media Readies Male Version; Tries 7 Percent Solution, Cutting Workforce By 14 Jobs
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Glam Media, the women’s fashion and entertainment ad net, has had a lot of activity lately. It’s now prepping a men’s channel and ad net wit… Read more »
Yahoo Hires Bain To Help ‘Streamline Processes’; Layoffs To Come?
By Joseph Weisenthal
And to think what they could’ve gotten from Microsoft… Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), whose stock continues to languish, has hired Bain & Co. to help… Read more »
Zell To LAT Staffers: We’re In This Together; Lawsuit Charges Are ‘Frivolous’ and ‘Unfounded’
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Layoffs Possibility Notwithstanding, eBay Wants To Buy Classified Startups
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McClatchy Eliminates Another 1,150 Jobs Or 10 Percent Of Workforce; Sees $100 Million Cost Savings
By Joseph Weisenthal
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), whose shares have fallen from around $21 to about $3 in the last year, has announced its second big job elimination… Read more »
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Express Newspapers To Axe More Than 80 Journalists
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Vudu Still Trying to Break the Voodoo: Does Some Layoffs, New CFO
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Vudu is trying to break the voodoo curse of online-TV boxes, but is having a tough time: it has laid off about 16-18 of its employees out of… Read more »
One Way To Avoid Layoffs: McClatchy To Freeze Wages Companywide
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Gannett Laying Off 600 Staffers; 1,000 Posts Being Eliminated
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Online And TV Ad Firm Spot Runner Lays Off 50 Employees, But Adding 40 More
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Spot Runner, the heavily backed and high profile online and TV ad agency based in Los Angeles, laid off about 50 employees, the company conf… Read more »
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Wenda Harris Millard, co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), told investors on Wednesday that the company was in the midst o… Read more »
Print Publishing Jobs In Choppy Waters
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AJC Reducing Staff By Nearly 200; 85 Newsroom Posts Included; Weekly Sections Eliminated
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While WSJ blamed expenses related to newsroom investments as the reason for laying off 50 staffers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the… Read more »
Hollywood Reporter Continues Retrenchment: Lays Off 10 Editorial Staff
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