SubscribeLos Angeles Times informed its newsroom Wednesday that it would lay off about 13% of the paper's journalists, the latest in a string of blows to major American news outlets. In making the announcement to officials of the newsroom union, executives cited a "difficult economic operating environment." L.A. Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida wrote in a memo to colleagues that making the decisions to lay off colleagues was "agonizing." According to a spokesperson, L.A. Times intends to lay off 74 journalists. Leaders of the paper's newsroom union, called the NewsGuild, note that they have been engaged in negotiations with the paper since September on a new contract with little progress.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 08, 2023 14:48 UTC