Latest in Layoffs

While Spotify has risen to become a podcasting power, particularly through acquisitions of production companies like Gimlet Media, Parcast and The Ringer, it has decided to shut down its own in-house studio. Known internally as Studio 4, because it was the fourth studio in the company’s portfolio, the entity…

Following the news of Marc Weinstock’s new oversee of a unified global marketing and distribution team at Paramount as President of Worldwide Marketing & Distribution, we’ve received news that a re-organization of both departments is underway Wednesday as the studio looks to meet consumers’ accelerated demands for…

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios is terminating most of its key executives, a move that was announced to staff Monday morning. Deadline hears that among those who are out are founding CEO Mark Gill, production president Lisa Ellzey, founding marketing chief Vincent Bruzzese, distribution head Shari Hardison and…

Vice Media, which went through a round of major layoffs in May 2020, is shedding about 20 more positions as it prioritizes video over text in its editorial operations outside of Vice News. The company’s digital group and Refinery29, which Vice acquired in 2019, are the divisions hit by the cuts, according to a person…

BuzzFeed said Tuesday that it will cut the size of the staff of HuffPost after it acquired the news site. The cuts will affect 47 employees in the U.S., while HuffPost Canada is closing and HuffPost Australia will be moving away from local coverage, according to a BuzzFeed spokesperson. They also will look at…

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest station groups in the country, is cutting about 5% of the workforce, job reductions that the company said was due to decline in revenue from the Covid-19 pandemic. A spokesperson for Sinclair said in a statement, “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED WITH MORE NAMES: Following the recent consolidation of ABC and Hulu’s original content under Craig Erwich and 20th Television and Touchstone TV under Karey Burke, a number of high-level executives are exiting their posts in the ongoing major round of layoffs across Disney’s TV Group today, which is be…

Layoffs were taking place on Thursday at ABC News as part of a restructuring and job cuts across The Walt Disney Co. The layoffs were in the “low single digit” percentage of the workforce and were across the news division, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The news division has about 1,400…

Walt Disney’s Television Group is set to cut a significant swathe of roles following its major restructures over the past few weeks. Deadline understands that the cuts are happening Thursday in the General Entertainment unit of the Mouse House, which is run by Peter Rice. This morning, Radio Disney said its was ceasing…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks is letting go 10% of its U.S. workforce, eliminating nearly 100 positions in a reorganization designed to streamline the company’s linear and streaming operations. CEO Josh Sapan announced the cuts during a virtual town hall meeting earlier today, company insiders tell Deadline. He said a…

ViacomCBS has been hit with another round of job cuts as layoffs and restructuring continue across big media and entertainment companies. A person familiar with the situation said some 100 staffers are impacted across the combined company, primarily but not entirely in corporate roles and including finance and ad…

The latest wave of layoffs at NBCUniversal is starting today, with about 5% of employees within the Frances Berwick-run business side of its Television & Streaming division set to depart. Deadline, which revealed last month that layoffs were coming in mid-November, understands that this amounts to fewer than 100…