NPR’s ‘Only a Game’ sports program to end production in September amid WBUR budget restructuring
"It’s hard to sell sports to public radio management, and it’s hard to sell public radio to a sports audience.”
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The Athletic lays off 46 people, almost eight percent of its staff
This is the largest round of layoffs yet at The Athletic.
Longtime Detroit sports columnist Pat Caputo laid off after 37 years at Oakland Press
Caputo covered the Tigers and Lions as a beat reporter before becoming a columnist.
Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl criticizes Maven and CEO James Heckman on social media
"There's a total lack of confidence in the leadership," says the Washington Post's Ben Strauss.
Entercom rolls out national paycuts and layoffs: “We will still need to eliminate or furlough a significant number of positions.”
"I am deeply saddened that we need to make these painful moves at this time, but they are necessary under the circumstances. We are doing everything in our power to minimize the number of layoffs through shared sacrifice across the organization, but we will still need to eliminate or furlough a significant number of positions."
Maven to lay off nine percent of staff, including six percent of Sports Illustrated editorial staff, projects $30 million revenue loss
Amidst projections for a $30 million drop in revenue this year, Maven has laid off nine percent of its staff, including six percent of the remaining editorial staff at SI.
Yahoo Sports cuts whole UK editorial team following further layoffs in US and Canada
"We are aligning our resources to opportunities where we feel we can differentiate ourselves and can scale faster to deliver a best in class experience to our fans."
Dramatic consolidation across local TV, radio and newspapers is a key part of cuts, and it seems set to increase further in 2020
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.
Des Moines’ 1460 KXNO reverses course after backlash over iHeartMedia layoffs, rehires six fired employees and adds FM broadcast
Strong public backlash after these layoffs led to KXNO bringing all the let-go employees back and adding a FM signal to their station.
iHeartMedia lays off numerous people (including many in sports) amidst their national “modernizing” of the company
There are cuts reported at many iHeartMedia stations nationwide, including in sports.
Yahoo layoffs include all four writers hired for the Mets site they wound up not launching
Wallace Matthews, Matt Ehalt, Mike Mazzeo and Gerard Gilberto all announced Friday that they'd been laid off.
The Players’ Tribune join others in media by announcing layoffs
Forgive the cynicism but it seems like with each passing day, the media landscape as we know it...
Verizon (Huffington Post/Yahoo/AOL), BuzzFeed and Gannett are all laying off staff, more than 1,000 people in all
More than 1,000 media members are about to be out of work after widespread cuts at three organizations Wednesday.
Reports have massive layoffs at the New York Daily News, including “half” of the newsroom
Frank Isola, editor-in-chief Jim Rich among names reportedly leaving.
Howie Schwab tweets resentment about how his time at ESPN ended in 2013, and about his inability to find new work
"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."
