"On Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount - newly merged with Skydance - began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. The news comes about two weeks after NBC News laid off about 150 people. Layoffs are common everywhere these days, and particularly in media, but these two in particular are worth writing about because of one commonality: Who was laid off."
"Back in September, Hanaa' wrote about how diversity-related jobs in journalism have been declining in the years since the George Floyd protests, which media companies initially responded to with big promises to hire more people of color and cover underserved and marginalized communities more thoughtfully. The CBS and NBC cuts underscore Hanaa's reporting, as it seems many of the cuts at both organizations targeted verticals related to race and diversity."
Paramount, newly merged with Skydance, began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including staff at CBS News. NBC News laid off about 150 employees roughly two weeks earlier. CBS News recently appointed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief. Many of the cuts targeted race, culture, and LGBTQ journalism verticals that were created after George Floyd's murder in 2020. Diversity-related jobs in journalism have declined since the post-2020 surge in hiring. NBC disbanded four community verticals (NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC OUT). Former CBS producer Trey Sherman reported that all people of color on his team were laid off while white staff were reassigned.
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