The Los Angeles Times union plans to walk off the job for a day on Friday to protest its paper’s plans to enact another round of layoffs, it announced Thursday night. In exchange, the guild wrote, the company would provide some buyouts and reduce the number of cut guild staffers by 50. I feel awful about it but when you’re a leader you have moments like this,” then-executive editor Merida told staffers following the layoffs, according to the L.A. Times. (The L.A. Times disputed the fact with The Wrap.) The L.A. Times news comes at the tail end of a wave of layoffs across the media industry.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 18, 2024 17:34 UTC