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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…

The Walt Disney Studios has officially unveiled its senior leadership team now that Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s film and TV assets is closed. It comes at the end of a long day at 20th Century Fox Film, where several big names were laid off as the merger begins to take its form. The Walt…

EXCLUSIVE: The beleaguered film staff of the various divisions of Fox had to know they would be in for a hellish Thursday when they walked through the gold doors of Building 88 to their offices and noticed something different. The 20th Century Fox logo stenciled on the doors was gone. It was replaced by the blue Fox…

UPDATED with more names: Fox’s International Theatrical Distribution president Andrew Cripps was also among the Fox senior brass pink-slipped Wednesday as Disney absorbs the rival studio. Cripps, like Fox Domestic Distribution boss Chris Aronson who was also laid off today, is also a platinum executive in his field…

20th Century Fox EVP Corporate Communications Dan Berger, who returned to the studio at the start of 2017, has been pink-slipped due to the Disney cuts. Berger helped navigate a few tricky issues during his tenure on the lot. December 2017 was quite the month — with not only news of Disney’s acquisition of Fox but the…

Jim Fielding, a veteran consumer products executive, is one of the high-ranking Fox managers who will be exiting in the wake of Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of most of Fox. He had joined the company in 2017 from DreamWorks Animation, taking the title as President of Consumer Products and Innovation for Fox Televi…

UPDATED: Esteemed Fox Domestic Distribution president Chris Aronson is leaving the studio as the Disney-Fox merger comes to fruition, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes as the new combined conglomerate cuts employees at the SVP, EVP and president levels, with Fox being hit first. We also received word that Aronson…