The NY Observer’s Felix Gillette reports that NBC is looking for a new round of voluntary buyouts from its news staff to help reduce costs:
NBC Universal executives have approached a large number of employees across its news divisions and bureaus, announcing that the company is looking for unspecified number of staffers to take voluntary buyouts. In a series of meetings with human resource managers, staffers at NBC News and MSNBC were told that if targets weren’t met voluntarily, employment challenges lurked ahead.
The “Nightly News” staff was told of the development on Friday. In December, TVNewser reported that NBC Universal was cutting 500 jobs starting at its news bureaus. That round of layoffs was preceded by buyout offers to “virtually everyone.”