Former L.A. Times Editor Russ Stanton Jumps to KPCC

January 24, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 2 weeks ago

He will oversee all of the public radio station's content

  

Relativity Lays Off 10 in Marketing and Operations

January 20, 2012 By Brent Lang 2 weeks ago

Staffing cuts represent five percent of the indie studio's work force

  

Imagine Entertainment Lays Off Staff After Universal Cuts (Exclusive)

January 12, 2012 By Joshua L. Weinstein 4 weeks ago

Cuts come in the wake of the company's much-reduced deal with Universal and tepid movies like "Tower Heist" and "Cowboys & Aliens"

  

CNN Lays Off 50 Staffers After Employee Appreciation Week

November 11, 2011 By Brent Lang 12 weeks ago

Cuts come at the cable network's Miami, Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta offices

  

Bob Berney Out at FilmDistrict on Heels of Depp's 'Rum Diary' Flop

November 4, 2011 By Brent Lang 13 weeks ago

Jeanne Berney will also depart as exec VP of Marketing under the consolidation, which comes a week after the disappointing debut of "Rum Diary"

  

Paramount Lays Off 120 in Global Theatrical Reorganization

October 27, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 15 weeks ago

International distribution president Andrew Cripps will be succeeded by former Disney exec Anthony Marcoly

  

NY Times to Buy Out Up to 20 Newsroom Staffers

October 13, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 17 weeks ago

Executive Editor Jill Abramson said there would be no layoffs

  

Paramount Pictures Shutters NYC Distribution (Exclusive)

October 3, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 18 weeks ago

With distribution contracts with Marvel and DreamWorks Animation ending, film studio liquidates New York distribution office

  

Washington Post Shutters Most of Its Local Bureaus, Denies It Is Retrenching

September 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 23 weeks ago

Paper, which closed all national bureaus in 2009, will only maintain its physical presence in capitals of Virginia and Maryland

  

Chicago Tribune Halts Tabloid Edition

August 31, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 23 weeks ago

After a brief dalliance with a tabloid copy, Chicago's largest newspapers refocuses on its broadsheet edition

  

Slate's Former Media Critic Jack Shafer to Live Chat About Layoffs

August 29, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 23 weeks ago

The Poynter institute is holding a live chat at 12:30 ET for Shafer to answer people's questions

  

Ex-LA Times Writer Mark Heisler Vents Again About Tribune

August 19, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 24 weeks ago

He writes a supposedly personal essay, but still points out many of the negative recent changes at the paper

  

Ex-LA Times Writer Mark Heisler: Paper's Awfully Good at Dumping People

August 5, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 26 weeks ago

The basketball writer, laid off in the most recent round, reflects on his 32-year career at the embattled publication

  

L.A. Times Cuts Veteran Writers Tim Rutten, Mark Heisler, Jerry Crowe

July 27, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 28 weeks ago

Several high-profile staffers are cut after movie advertising fails to deliver. A Metro editor tries to buck up: "We whip asses"

  

MySpace Expected to Sell for $35M By Wednesday (Updated)

June 28, 2011 By Lucas Shaw & Brent Lang 32 weeks ago

The one-time social media giant is expected to cut 50 percent of its employees

  

Warner Lays Off 50 in Home Entertainment, Consumer Products

June 10, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 34 weeks ago

Job cuts amount to about 7% of the studio's domestic work force; decline in DVD sales is blamed

  

Fox Home Entertainment Lays Off 22 People

June 8, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 35 weeks ago

The staffers worked in analytics and in information technology

  

Disney Preparing to Lay Off About 200 People

June 6, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 35 weeks ago

Most of the positions cut are in distribution

  

Sony Online Entertainment Slashes Staff, Closes Offices

March 31, 2011 By Diane Garrett 45 weeks ago

Division hands out pink slips to 205 staffers, pulls plug on "The Agency," a game long in development

  

AOL Folds 30 Sites; HuffPo Hires Six More People

March 22, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 46 weeks ago

Post-sale integration of redundant sites begins; Arianna Huffington's hiring spree continues

  

Universal Music Lays Off 60

January 21, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Expected job cuts begin at world's largest record company

  

Beleaguered MySpace Lays Off 500, Restructures

January 11, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

News Corp.'s struggling social network makes deep cuts

  

TCA: New ABC News Chief Says No More Layoffs Expected

January 10, 2011 By Tim Molloy 1 year ago

Ben Sherwood says it's too early to say if news media a factor in Rep. Giffords' shooting

  

Yahoo to Lay Off 600

December 15, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Another round of cuts hit struggling Web giant

  

As Expected, Layoffs Hit Newsweek

September 24, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Sidney Harman announces cuts ahead of sale closing

  

What's Behind the Exodus at Newsweek?

September 21, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Attractive exit packages, looming layoffs, "fear of the unknown," staffers say

  

Apparition Whittles Staff Once More

September 7, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 1 year ago

Latest round of cuts leave Bill Pohlad's decimated indie distribution company with only a skeleton crew; company said to be shopping Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" to other distributors

  

USA Today to Lay Off 130 in 'Radical' Restructuring

August 27, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Nine percent of paper's workforce to be eliminated

  

Digg Lays Off 10% of Staff

May 6, 2010 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Social networking site says it will still hire more engineers

  

ABC News Lays Off 22

April 28, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Network completes round of more than 350 cuts; most took buyouts

  

Life & Style Lays Off 8

April 16, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Bauer title trims staff; In Touch intact

  

Bloomberg Axes 25 at BusinessWeek (Updated)

March 11, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 1 year ago

Another round of cuts come ahead of redesign