{"id":1775267,"date":"2022-12-14T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775267"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:17:57","slug":"watch-washington-post-staffers-irate-after-layoffs-announced-ceo-balks-as-grievance-session-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-washington-post-staffers-irate-after-layoffs-announced-ceo-balks-as-grievance-session-unfolds\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Washington Post Staffers Irate After Layoffs Announced; CEO Balks As \u2018Grievance Session\u2019 Unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-washington-post-staffers-irate-after-layoffs-announced-ceo-balks-as-grievance-session-unfolds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Footage of employees at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/washington-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> lambasting company leadership over pending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/unemployment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">layoffs<\/a> surfaced online as executives plan to reconfigure the paper\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet will conduct targeted layoffs constituting a single-digit percentage of the overall workforce beginning next year, Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan informed employees at a heated town hall meeting on Wednesday, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/14\/media\/washington-post-layoffs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from CNN. He told staff that the company cannot \u201ckeep spending on initiatives that no longer align with readers\u2019 interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A video from the meeting posted by Washington Post Correspondent Annie Gowen showed multiple employees shouting questions at Ryan and complaining about the upcoming job losses. \u201cWe are not going to turn a town hall into a grievance session,\u201d the executive responded.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@washingtonpost<\/a> publisher Fred Ryan refuses to take staff questions after announcing Q1 layoffs in \u201cTown Hall\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PostGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@postguild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C4HOXb6y2C\">pic.twitter.com\/C4HOXb6y2C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annie Gowen (@anniegowen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anniegowen\/status\/1603071294316199937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post Chief Communications Officer Kathy Baird confirmed to CNN that the outlet will cut positions next year. \u201cWe are planning to direct our resources and invest in coverage, products, and people in service of providing high value to our subscribers and new audiences,\u201d she said. \u201cAs a result, a number of positions will be eliminated. We anticipate it will be a single digit percentage of our employee base, and we will finalize those plans over the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper could even increase headcount as the company emphasizes high-growth verticals. The Washington Post Guild nevertheless <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PostGuild\/status\/1602773561353146376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lambasted<\/a> Ryan and other managers for dismissing features and magazine employees without offering them \u201cjobs elsewhere in the newsroom.\u201d Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased the outlet for $250 million in 2013 and named Ryan, a former senior adviser to the late President Ronald Reagan, as chief executive and publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post will nix its standalone Sunday print magazine this month as part of the \u201cglobal and digital transformation,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/11\/30\/washington-post-magazine-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> to staffers. The 10 employees who ran the publication were told last month in a meeting that their positions had been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Following years of profitability, The Washington Post is on track to lose money as revenue from digital advertising in the first half of the year fell to $70 million, marking a 15% decline from the same period last year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/30\/business\/media\/washington-post-jeff-bezos-revenue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment and media companies have dismissed substantial portions of their payrolls in recent months as macroeconomic tensions persist. Gannett, a media conglomerate that owns more than 250 local news outlets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/local-journalists-laid-off-as-media-conglomerate-suffers-heavy-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that executives would begin \u201cnecessary but painful reductions to staffing\u201d while eliminating some open positions.<\/p>\n<p>CNN CEO Christ Licht likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/01\/media\/cnn-layoffs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initiated<\/a> hundreds of layoffs earlier this month and ended live programming on cable channel HLN. In a memo to employees, Licht <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-chief-lets-go-of-hundreds-of-employees-at-company-guts-sister-network-hln-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that the goal of the strategic review that led to the dismissals was to \u201cbetter align our people, processes and resources with our future priorities, strengthen our ability to deliver on CNN\u2019s core journalistic mission and enable us to innovate in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs in the media industry occur as investors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meta-shares-fall-to-lowest-level-since-2016-as-company-burns-billions-on-metaverse-inflates-payrolls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticize<\/a> large companies, especially in the technology space, for maintaining bloated payrolls. Many financiers took note as Twitter CEO Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-elon-musk-sends-blunt-message-to-3700-fired-twitter-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced<\/a> the social media company\u2019s headcount by two-thirds with no salient impact on the social media platform\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of employees at The Washington Post lambasting company leadership over pending layoffs surfaced online as executives plan to reconfigure the paper\u2019s operations. The outlet will conduct targeted layoffs constituting a single-digit percentage of the overall workforce beginning next year, Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan informed employees at a heated town hall meeting on Wednesday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1754213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9037,8166,9038,3850,6202,9042,7970,4899,9041,9040,9039,4086,4516,6195],"class_list":["post-1775267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-grievance","tag-announced","tag-balks","tag-ceo","tag-daily","tag-irate","tag-layoffs","tag-post","tag-session","tag-staffers","tag-unfolds","tag-washington","tag-watch","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}