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LA Times layoffs 115 journalists over 'Zoom call' amid financial turmoil

24/01/2024 04:31 PM | Click to read full article

With the layoffs, the newspaper cut down 20% of its newsroom staff and its owner and billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong said that the layoffs were important to make the newspaper sustainable and refused to accept that the company was in any kind of turmoil. President of Media Guild of the West Matt Pearce wrote on X that 94 union members were notified about being laid off, which is one-quarter of the union members but very few of them had originally anticipated.

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