A “significant number” of employees at the Los Angeles Times are likely to be let go. This is another business that has let go of a lot of workers for a variety of reasons, such as not making enough money from marketing and advertising.
The LA Times Guild is planning a one-day walkout to protest the cuts that are coming. The Los Angeles Times management said they were going to fire a lot of journalists soon and asked the Guild to get rid of protections for seniority in our union contract. This would give them a lot more freedom to choose who to fire, the Guild said in a statement.
Some say that at least 100 writers will be let go, which is about 20% of the staff. The exact number of people who will be let go is unknown at this time.
Kevin Merida, who had been the executive editor of the newspaper for two years, recently quit his job, saying that he was going to do “considerable soul-searching about my career.”
As many media outlets and print companies try to figure out how to move toward or compete with digital media, they are cutting jobs and shrinking. When many writers work for the same company, it doesn’t make sense for many of them to use their names.
Along with the Los Angeles Times, a lot of other newspaper companies have done the same thing or something like it. The Washington Post said in October 2023 that it would let people leave on their own. The Los Angeles Times also got rid of more than 70 jobs in June.
There have been 17,436 job cuts in the media business in the US, which is the most that has been reported so far. As businesses change and media becomes more digital, this trend is likely to continue. Overall, things are moving in a different way, which means that changes need to be made.
