Awful Announcing
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A lot of media cuts can be traced not just to digital competition and changing business patterns, but also consolidation and investment firms' involvement. And that trend may rise further still this year.
Strong public backlash after these layoffs led to KXNO bringing all the let-go employees back and adding a FM signal to their station.
There are cuts reported at many iHeartMedia stations nationwide, including in sports.
Wallace Matthews, Matt Ehalt, Mike Mazzeo and Gerard Gilberto all announced Friday that they'd been laid off.
Forgive the cynicism but it seems like with each passing day, the media landscape as we know it...
More than 1,000 media members are about to be out of work after widespread cuts at three organizations Wednesday.
Frank Isola, editor-in-chief Jim Rich among names reportedly leaving.
"If you have been at a company a long time, watch your back. Loyalty doesn't mean a thing any more. This will be the last time I ever talk about the pain of that day, being told I could not say goodbye to friends of over 25 years. I was treated like a joke."
Layoffs have left the Tribune without full-time writers travelling with the White Sox and Blackhawks, and they haven't announced how they're planning to cover those teams in future.
Topics in the two-hour presentation will include the social media policy changes, coverage of political and social issues, and ESPN's current priorities.
Several FanRag writers tweeted Monday that they had been let go.
ESPN will be spared this time around.
"What is the industry going to look like in five or 10 years?”
