Young journalists of color ‘disproportionately affected’, with many Black, Asian American and Latino staffers laid off, Times guild says
    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      What if your local news is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group?

      • externelly@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        I never lived in LA and I have an LA Times subscriptions. As far as I can tell, it is still provides quality journalism, despite some questionable decision making. I keep supporting it primarily because I feel like if it goes under then it will leave a big news void on the west coast. I try to support local media in addition to some of the big brands

        • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          11 months ago

          It’s just getting smaller and smaller, and the stories are less and less deeply researched. I still get it, but a lot of days I feel like a modern day Don Quixote.

  • RHOPKINS13@kbin.social
    26·
    11 months ago

    HR was glad to use the protests as an excuse for the firing. They needed a good sounding reason since all of these writers were going to be replaced by AI anyway.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      It sounds like union busting, which is a terrible reason for everyone but their investors—who can’t see past this quarter’s profits.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    Here we go again: Piece of shit Billionaire decides to fire 115 people because having access to billions of dollars just isn’t enough.