Media layoff season continues: The buyout list for the Los Angeles Times is rather disheartening.
haha anybody hiring?
— jason (@nonlinearnotes) November 17, 2015
Welp.
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) November 17, 2015
anyone know of any open podcast gigs?
by The Awl
FKA Capital New York reports:
At the behest of chief…
The layoffs of twenty people earlier this week by the New York Times leave the paper without a single black reporter in its Culture section.
Our best wishes to the folks at Time Inc., who are enduring a really terrible and sustained day of major…
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“A bolt of panic shot through my body as Tom continued shitting HR-speak from his mouth, repeating phrases like ‘skill set’ and ‘moving forward’ until I eventually tuned him out.” — The Way We Get Laid Off Now.
I couldn’t sleep all night! I was tossing and turning, my mind afire, as I wondered: how are there 14 editors at the New York Times Book Review? This is not simple spite! I like the Book Review. Or at least I like it abstractly…
Layoffs at Vanity Fair have been ongoing since yesterday-they’re not centralized, which means that editor Graydon Carter need not be present. And that’s handy, as the rumor that Carter was on a private plane is indeed said by staffers to be true. Well…
Law firm Fish & Richardson just deferred two-thirds of their incoming first-year associates. That’s pretty bad! Though don’t feel terrible for them. Half those kids are all getting paid $5000 a month for a year to not…
