The Los Angeles Times newsroom is eliminating 74 positions—or roughly 13% of its newsroom—executive editor Kevin Merida announced in a memo to staff Wednesday. (Poynter)
A spokeswoman for the news organization, Hillary Manning, said about 500 people would remain. (NYT)
It’s the first major round of job cuts since the paper was acquired in 2018 by Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire entrepreneur and investor based in Southern California. (NPR)
“We are outraged by management’s announcement this morning that it plans to lay off 57 Guild members across several departments, amounting to roughly 15% of our entire newsroom membership, including several Guild leaders,” Reed Johnson, Times Guild Unit council chair and editor of Los Angeles Times en Español, said in a statement. (Variety)