MTVN Set to Trim Staff

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NEW YORK Viacom is preparing to cut 250 jobs at its MTV Networks division, the latest action in what MTVN chairman and CEO Judy McGrath characterized as a “fine-tuning” of operations.

This morning, in a memo to MTVN staff, McGrath said that in order to compete in an accelerating digital universe, the company must “refine [its] business and organizational models as well.”

The memo, which was leaked to the press almost immediately after it hit MTVN staffers’ in-boxes at 6:17 a.m.,



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