ABC News To Cut 35 Jobs Over 2 Years; Focus On Digital

By Rafat Ali Jun. 23, 2007, 5:52am 1 Comment

“Focus on digital” is a euphemism for closing the other side of operation these days: so it is with ABC News, who said today that it will cut 35 jobs over the next two years as part of a companywide restructuring that will move more resources into digital news. The network’s news president, David Westin, announced the “two-year process to take a fresh look at ABC News from top to bottom” in an e-mail to his staff Friday. The full memo is here on TVNewser.

Reuters: It won’t be a straight 35 jobs cut, as some positions will be added in digital media and elsewhere while others will be eliminated. The level of cuts is comparatively small for the size of ABC News, roughly 1% of its worldwide work force.

ABCNews.com has been among the first TV network news sites to gain a big audience online.