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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLayoffs underway at HuffPost a day after parent company Verizon announced cuts
New York (CNN)Some employees at HuffPost learned Thursday morning that their days in the newsroom are numbered, as layoffs hit the popular news website.
A spokesperson for HuffPost said the site is "investing its talents and resources to areas that have high audience engagement, differentiation and are poised for growth at a time when our mission means more than ever."
"We are deeply committed to quality journalism that reflects what matters most to our diverse audiences across the globe," the spokesperson said.
It's a significant setback for the progressive news website, a pioneer of the digital media landscape, which has become far less hospitable than it was in 2005, when HuffPost launched as The Huffington Post.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/media/huffpost-layoffs/
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(22,205 posts)about the layoffs at Huffpost...a sad state of affairs, especially after being sold by Huffington and the leadership changed. Seems like every time ownership changes, the new ownership sells off assets in order to pay for the acquisition, and disposing of duplicate assets/redundant assets. Same old story. Different company/victim this time around.