The Los Angeles Times announced layoffs Wednesday, joining Spotify and the lifestyle media company Bustle Digital Group with cuts this week, the latest in a brutal series of closures and layoffs rocking the media industry in 2023. Salem Media Group, a Texas-based Christian radio broadcaster, announced it would lay off about 3% of its 1,436 employees, according to RadioInsight. NPR affiliate New England Public Media announced it will lay off 17 employees—20% of its staff—by March 31 after facing “serious financial headwinds during the last three years,” New England Public Media management tells Boston public radio. The marketing trade publication Adweek laid off 14 people, according to employees. NBC News and MSNBC laid off 75 employees as part of a broader corporate reorganization.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 07, 2023 19:59 UTC