Around 40 SI staffers were laid off during the transition, and many of the remaining staffers have been raising concerns about SI’s direction in the months since. ADLast month, The Washington Post detailed a series of incidents that had troubled SI staffers. “The October layoffs at Maven’s direction gutted our newsroom,” the staffers wrote to management. Another writer erroneously reported that USC’s football coach would be fired, only to be refuted by a senior SI writer. The current push at SI would expand the bargaining unit to include most editorial staffers, including digital and video journalists.

Source: Washington Post January 06, 2020 15:33 UTC