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.
Caputo covered the Tigers and Lions as a beat reporter before becoming a columnist.
"There's a total lack of confidence in the leadership," says the Washington Post's Ben Strauss.
"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."
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.
"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."
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?”
These are just the latest media cuts.
The Yahoo layoffs continue as part of the Verizon acquisition and combination with AOL.
Vocativ laid off its entire editorial staff
Being able to ignore LaVar Ball is a silver lining indeed.
Price was with the paper for 26 years, while Williams was there for 18.
The Bus is out at ESPN