The New York Daily News, a storied big-city tabloid known for its ruthless and splashy front pages, laid off half its newsroom staff on Monday, marking the latest round of cuts at the beleaguered Tronc company’s media holdings. “We are fundamentally restructuring the Daily News,” an email from Tronc to the staff reads. As reporters and editors waited, some were seen going around the newsroom, thanking each other for their work. Prior to announcing the layoffs, Whitmore held a “30-second meeting” with the staff in which he said, “Bear with us, today will be difficult,” according to a source in the newsroom. “We’ve had a feeling something would happen,” a news staffer told HuffPost when the rumors began to spread.

Source: Huffington Post July 23, 2018 13:22 UTC