Latest in Layoffs

In the latest round of belt-tightening to hit WarnerMedia, subsidiary Otter Media’s online video network Rooster Teeth has laid off 13% of its total workforce, or about 50 employees. CEO Matt Hullum relayed the news to the staff Thursday, calling it “a tough day … unlike any moment of organizational change we have…

Vice Media, whose news unit is becoming a bigger presence at the Viceland cable network, has reportedly laid off about 15 people at Viceland. The workers span the programming, marketing and research departments. The cuts, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, follow the news first reported by Deadline two weeks…

Five months after Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of key Fox assets was completed, there has been a new round of layoffs in Disney’s media distribution areas that include home entertainment and TV distribution, I have learned. I hear several dozen employees, just under 60, were affected, both on Fox and Disney…

Top exhibitor AMC Entertainment, following through on previously announced cost-cutting plans, has laid off 35 office staffers and will not fill 15 more positions. In a statement furnished to Deadline, AMC acknowledged the “difficult but necessary organizational changes” at its headquarters in Leawood, KS. The company…

EXCLUSIVE There have been a handful of exits of Netflix executives from different areas related to kids and family programming, I have learned. I hear the layoffs took place over the past two to three weeks. Five people were impacted. The list includes Jenna Boyd, Director, Kids & Family Original Series; Jill Stewart…

Several dozen staffers have been let go at Disney’s film and visual effects units, including the Fox studio being absorbed into the company. About 250 workers have been let go to date, a studio source tells Deadline. Those exiting Fox include John Kilkenny, who headed visual effects; Fred Baron, EVP of feature producti…

TruTV is laying off most of its marketing and programming staffers, who will receive severance packages as part of exit deals similar to those at other units of WarnerMedia. The company has been streamlining and consolidating since AT&T acquired Time Warner for $81 billion in 2018. The restructuring accelerated in…

In another devastating blow to the newspaper industry, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has laid off its entire staff following a sale to rival publication, the New Orleans Advocate. The 182-year-old Times-Picayune and its website nola.com were acquired Thursday, The Advocate announced on its website. The article…

1091 Media, the new owners of what had been known as The Orchard Film Group, told staff Friday that a new strategic direction at the company will include distributing fewer, more targeted movies each year and that some layoffs are in the offing. Company COO and CFO Chad Blackwell and chief revenue officer Julie…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED WITH MORE NAMES: A month after Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of key Fox assets was completed, there is a second round of layoffs hitting the former Fox units, I have learned. I hear the terminations are affecting employees related to TV ad sales in New York. I hear the impacted executives work…

The swath of layoffs at 20th Century Fox Film last week after the studio’s mega-merger with Disney officially took effect included Kieran Breen, who was president of International Marketing, and EVP Global Marketing Strategy Britta Gampper, Deadline has learned. They were part of the pink-slips on March 21 that hit…

The bloodbath in Fox’s film division Thursday that saw an exodus of top executives has not spread to the TV businesses of the combined companies. As expected, the first significant TV cuts have been in the area of distribution, which always is vulnerable in consolidation. Mark Kaner, President of 20th Century Fox…