BuzzFeed announced layoffs in the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, just three weeks after finalizing a deal to purchase HuffPost from Verizon Media.
The layoffs will affect 47 U.S. employees. BuzzFeed is also shutting down operations at HuffPost Canada later this month.
The layoffs were made to “fast-track the path to profitability,” BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti told staffers according to HuffPost. Peretti said it would allow the company to break even this year and to eventually turn a profit.
The layoffs come amid a pandemic that has been devastating to many news companies, and The HuffPost Union, organized as part of the Writers Guild of America East, said it was “devastated and infuriated” by the decision.
HuffPost laying off 47 after acquisition by BuzzFeed
Is it too early? Nope
Too good to check: I also read that the two offices that were shut down just so happened to be the two offices that voted to unionize recently.
To quote the great philosopher Nelson Muntz;
“HAW HAW”
HuffPost is a news organization? Who knew?
Hey, if CNN can be called “news”…….
Yes it kinda sux with te biden crowd in “power” BUT every once in a while something happens that makes you walk with a little spring in your step…. demo policys affect EVERYONE.
Just what we need, more woke coders.
Well, they can be used to implement the new politically correct coding standards, the ones that mandate program source code no longer refer to “master-slave protocols” and things like that which have been standard computer science terminology for almost as long as computer science has existed. That would free up the real programmers to do real work.
It won’t make a difference. They just make up the propaganda…er, “news” anyway.