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Memo: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro informs staff of layoffs; source: around 1,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated as the company unifies marketing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Layoffs Hit Disney: 1,000 Jobs Cut as Josh D’Amaro Unveils Streamlining Push
"Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow's needs," the CEO told staff Tuesday.

Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/snap-crucible-moment

Snap's crucible moment
Mass layoffs land tomorrow, the Perplexity deal is dead, and Specs are launching soon. Also: OpenAI has a cyber model too, Apple can tell Elon what to do, and Anthropic expands its unusual board.

How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-layoffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.1BXW.uPrAKNmySdUA&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p18#a260314p18

A year after mass layoffs, Education Dept keeps handing off its programs to other agencies | Federal News Network
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reorganization/2026/03/a-year-after-mass-layoffs-education-dept-keeps-handing-off-its-programs-to-other-agencies/

E.W. Scripps is expected to make layoffs in the near future as it seeks to grow adjusted earnings by up to $150M over three years; in 2024, it had 5K staff (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/scripps-layoffs-cos…

Scripps Layoffs Loom as Local TV Company Sets Cost-Cutting Plan
E.W. Scripps is expecting to make layoffs in the near future as the company, which operates more than 60 local TV stations in the U.S., has embarked on a plan aimed at boosting adjusted earnings by up to $150 million over the next three years.

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
The Digg Beta relaunch lasted two months but now it’s shutting down again and laying off employees.

Sources: Jeff Bezos said "I don't care" after WaPo leaders told him changes to the Opinion section could turn off subscribers; 60K canceled their subs in Feb. (New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post
The billionaire newspaper owner, dissatisfied by years of losses, wants the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget.

A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
The Digg Beta relaunch lasted two months but now it’s shutting down again and laying off employees.

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that
it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to
decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.
Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, told newsroom employees on a call that
all sections would be affected in some way.
But he said that the end result would be a publication that focused even more on national news and politics,
as well as business and health…

Washington Post Begins Cutting More Than 300 Jobs
The layoffs will cut into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage, and reduce the number of all its employees by about 30 percent.

Source: New York Daily News is cutting six of 10 national desk staffers, one metro reporter, seven print production people, and two photo department staffers (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/1…

NY Daily News left with just four national writers after ‘Valentine’s Day massacre’ brings more devastating layoffs
“The vampiric owners of The News are seeking to drain the lifeblood of the paper,” a staffer told The Post.

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-swe…

Layoffs hit their worst January levels since 2009, Challenger says https://ground.news/article/layoffs-hit-their-worst-january-levels-since-2009-challenger-says_8366b6

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p72#a260307p72

WGAE members at CBS News 24/7 unanimously ratify a three-year contract with salary increases and AI protections, including 1.5x severance for layoffs due to AI (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/cbs-news-24-7-union-contract-wgae-1236860193/

WGAE Members At CBS News 24/7 Ratify New Contract
The 60-member bargaining unit voted unanimously on the new agreement.

Sources: 11 CBS Evening News employees, or about 25% of the staffers eligible for buyouts, have chosen the option ahead of impending layoffs (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/business

'CBS Evening News' staffers are 'jumping ship' with buyout offer ahead of Bari Weiss' layoffs: sources
“It’s a lot of people.”

US Layoffs Surge to Highest Level Since Great Recession | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/layoffs-ups-amazon/2026/02/06/id/1245120/

Make #Layoffs Shameful Again

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p147#a260204p147

Interesting vid from an Amazonian. As a Microsoftie, I have a different view but I agree on this: The layoffs aren't about AI. Not in the way many are thinking.
▶️ Tech Layoffs Are NOT About AI: An Insider View from a Former Amazon Manager - Becky Global
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uyCcgG4nm9

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to "feel like a mini AGI", his take on Elon Musk's X, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

The inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI

Sources: E.W. Scripps sent layoff notices to dozens of Court TV staff after it sold the channel to Jellysmack; Court TV's linear feed will shut down on March 11 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/court-tv-layoffs-shutting-down/

Court TV implements layoffs, plans to shut down TV network in March
Dozens of Court TV staff received layoff notices after Scripps sold the network to Jellysmack, with the linear channel set to shut down March 11.

Layoffs in the past year:
• Dell: 13,000
• Intel: 27,000
• Meta: 11,000
• UPS: 48,000
• FedEx: 12,000
• Boeing: 17,000
• Verizon: 15,000
• Walmart: 12,000
• Amazon: 30,000
• Microsoft: 15,000
• Citigroup: 20,000
Job security is a myth.
https://

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com (@thefinancenewsletter.com)
Layoffs in the past year: • Dell: 13,000 • Intel: 27,000 • Meta: 11,000 • UPS: 48,000 • FedEx: 12,000 • Boeing: 17,000 • Verizon: 15,000 • Walmart: 12,000 • Amazon: 30,000 • Microsoft: 15,000 • Citigroup: 20,000 Job security is a myth.

Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs
https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/04/114220/pinterest-sacks-workers-for-creating-tool-to-track-layoffs

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/08/washington-post-layoffs-democracy-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p15#a260208p15

Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-will-lewis-stepping-down-layoffs-c8559f5e1d9f4d73f37163e4a708f9da

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

Washington Post Union Calls for Jeff Bezos to Sell the Paper - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-union-urges-jeff-bezos-sell-paper-layoffs-ceo-2026-2

Around 150 ProPublica Guild members announce a 24-hour strike beginning on Wednesday, seeking protections around the use of AI, layoff protections, and more (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/908401/propublica-union-strike-negotiations-ai-…

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
For the first time in the nonprofit’s history, the ProPublica union of 150 workers is walking off the job in a 24-hour strike.

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post (Alex Kirshner/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2026/02/jeff-bezos-washington-post-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p112#a260205p112

Beong-Soo Kim will serve as USC’s 13th President, according to a community-wide email sent Wednesday.
Kim has served as USC’s interim president since July 2025.
The election by the Board of Trustees was unanimous.
A Feb. 5 email from Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the USC board of trustees, stated that Kim,
formerly general counsel and senior vice president at USC,
would not be a candidate for the presidency in order to “dedicate all of his efforts to being a fa…

Beong-Soo Kim to be USC’s next president - Daily Trojan
As interim president, Kim launched the USC Open Dialogue Project and oversaw USC layoffs and budget reductions.

Mass layoffs at Washington Post: Dimming democracy's light
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5729864-democracy-dies-in-darkness/

With the WaPo layoffs, we're seeing a business and leadership failure, and the death of a newspaper where the actual journalism still stands strong (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending
Oracle has ratcheted up its capital expenditures as it builds data center infrastructure that can handle AI workloads.

Ex-WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron says "this ranks among the darkest days in the history of" the paper; WaPo laid off Amazon beat reporter Caroline O'Donovan (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/

Washington Post Layoffs Cut More Than 300 Employees at Jeff Bezos Paper
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

Sources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff
The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-companies-are-ai-wash…

Sam Altman Says Companies Are 'AI Washing' Layoffs
Hold up, let him cook.

Kennedy Center to start layoffs ahead of planned closure for renovations (Gary Grumbach/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/kennedy-center-layoffs-ahead-planned-closure-renovations-rcna265390
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p167#a260326p167

WaPo Publisher Will Lewis appeared at NFL Honors in San Francisco Thursday, after failing to show for a Zoom call in which WaPo announced historic layoffs (Drew Lerner/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/will-lewis-nfl…

WaPo editor Will Lewis spotted on NFL red carpet day after killing paper's sports desk
Washington Post publisher Will Lewis appeared on the NFL Honors red carpet one day after laying off one-third of his paper.

Jack Dorsey's Memo Could Signal a New Era of White-Collar Layoffs - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-block-memo-new-era-white-collar-layoffs-2026-2

'This Is a Wakeup Call': Critics Disgusted as Billionaire Bezos Guts Washington Post | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bezos-washington-post-layoffs

Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…

Update on our organization
The following message was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.

To avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026

Exclusive: Washington Post’s White House team tries to avert layoffs in letter to Bezos
The effort from the Post’s White House reporters comes as staffers are scrambling to preserve their jobs ahead of impending layoffs.

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/07/kari-lake-unlawful-voice-of-america-ruling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p64#a260307p64

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams
The company said it's "reallocating resources" to roles and teams focused on artificial intelligence.

In an interview, Washington Post top editor Matt Murray says Jeff Bezos supports "reinvention" and wants WaPo to be "a bigger, relevant, thriving institution" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/jeff-bezos-matt-murray…

Jeff Bezos remains committed to Washington Post amid brutal layoffs, top editor says
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos remains committed to the publication, its top editor told CNN in an interview Wednesday, hours after the Post laid off hundreds of employees.

Sources: WaPo told its ~45-person sports staff that some will be re-assigned within the newsroom, as it cuts one of the great American newspaper sports sections (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019090/2026/02/04/washington-post-…

The Washington Post eliminates sports section as part of wider layoffs
The Post's sports section was a longstanding foundation for sports fans in the D.C. region.

America Now Has an EV Rust Belt. High Gas Prices Won't Rescue It. (Sharon Terlep/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ev-factories-layoffs-autoworkers-f93de8d3?st=2bQRfJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260331/p158#a260331p158

GAO: Education Dept's RIF cost taxpayers $28M
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5718437-gao-education-department-layoffs/

Sources: Disney is planning to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks, many from the company's recently consolidated marketing department (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-planning-layoffs-under-new-…

RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Nearly 80,000 tech jobs cut in Q1, but AI's full impact may be yet to come
IT outsourcer Cognizant moves to become AI agent builder

Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Oracle layoffs: AI pivot triggers 10,000 job cuts in India
Oracle has cut around 10,000 jobs in India, sources told ET. This is part of a global restructuring affecting 30,000 employees. The company is reducing roles in its tech divisions. Oracle Financial Software Services also saw job losses. Employees are concerned about increased workloads. This follows similar tech industry layoffs this year.

Judge Advances Suit Over RFK Jr.'s Layoffs, Reorganization
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/judge-advances-suit-over-rfk-jr-workforce-cuts-reorganization

Sony Pictures Entertainment is laying off hundreds of employees across its film studio, TV studios, and corporate to refocus on "strategic priorities" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Sony Pictures Entertainment Lays Off Hundreds As It Refocuses on “Strategic Priorities”
The film and TV studio is cutting roles in some areas as it invests in others, in what sources say is a strategic move, not a cost-cutting one.

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-since-2009-challenger-says.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p35#a260205p35

In a memo to CBS News staff, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce layoffs without specifying the extent of the cuts; employees will be notified by end of day (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-news-layoffs-bari-weiss-1236761230/

CBS News Starts Another Round Of Layoffs; Job Cuts To Impact About 6% Of Workforce
The layoffs are the latest under new editor in chief Bari Weiss and new owner Paramount Skydance.

Sources: ESPN plans to cut ~30 jobs in the coming weeks, primarily in off-camera departments, partly due to a $100M loss tied to its 2025 YouTube TV dispute (John Ourand/Puck)
https://puck.news/espns-next-round-of-layoffs-is-almost-here/

CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-news-washington-post-layoffs-20260129.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p95#a260129p95

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

A look at local news outlets including The 51st, City Cast, and The Baltimore Banner expanding in Washington, D.C. to help fill a void created by WaPo layoffs (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with-was

With Washington Post Local diminished, other news sites step up their D.C. coverage
The 51st, City Cast, and The Baltimore Banner are among the outlets to announce expansions of Washington, D.C. metro area coverage since the Post layoffs.

Q&A with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on data centers in space, memory shortage, Cisco's networking business, AI bubble, layoffs, AI coding, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/906727/cisco-ceo-chuck-r…

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space
Chuck Robbins discusses energy, infrastructure, opposition to data centers, 5G and 6G adoption, and why AI is writing Cisco code.

David Ellison made his first public appearance before WBD execs; sources: he called the deal process "turbulent", downplayed layoffs, and left some unsatisfied (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs (Exclusive)
The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider.

The Washington Post Correspondents Start "Save The Post" Campaign
https://deadline.com/2026/01/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-1236697326/

Post Parting Depression (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p88#a260125p88

Equalpride, parent company of LGBTQ outlets like Out and The Advocate, cuts staff, including the EICs of Pride.com and The Advocate (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/out-…

Media Layoffs Continue as Equalpride Axes Staffers at LGBTQ Standouts Out, Advocate and Pride.com
Commenting on the latest round of cuts, a source tells THR, “These brands mean a lot to people, and we need to be telling our stories now more than ever.”

Amazon reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, vs. $34.9B est., AWS operating income up 17% YoY to $12.5B, and boosts capex in 2026 to $200B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon set to report earnings with AI spend, cloud growth, job cuts in focus
Investors are expected to focus on cloud growth, AI spending and the recent layoffs in Amazon's corporate workforce.

Sources: WaPo plans to end the sports section in its "current form", restructure the metro desk, and eliminate the books section as part of a "strategic reset" (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/washingto…

The Washington Post Is Slashing Its Newsroom in ‘Strategic Reset’
The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper is making significant cuts to international, sports, metro and books

Sources: Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as soon as this month as part of its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/orac…

Source: Spotify laid off 15 people, or ~3% of its podcast group, with most cuts coming at Spotify Studios and The Ringer, which is ending a John Jastremski show (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-podcast-…

Spotify Layoffs in Podcast Group Cut 3% of Staff, at The Ringer and Spotify Studios
More job cuts have come in Spotify's podcast group, including layoffs at The Ringer, Spotify's podcast network and sports and pop culture site.

How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus on the latest round of layoffs at the Washington Post and what the impact has been on the newspaper and its staff since it was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013.

A look at local TV news' struggles: aging audiences, less network content, shrinking ad revenue, and layoffs of anchors in favor of on-the-ground reporting (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

TV news in crisis: Layoffs, consolidation and shrinking ratings
Longtime journalists may become collateral damage as TV stations deal with controlling costs and the loss of viewers to streaming.

Pinterest fires two employees who it says "wrote custom scripts" that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0k670n0ydo

Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track job cuts
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

Washington Post Guild Steward Sarah Kaplan says the reported 300 layoffs figure doesn't account for non-Guild cuts, making the actual total "well over" 300 (Paul Farhi/@farhip)
https://x.com/farhip/status/2020591656387694810

Paul Farhi (@farhip) on X
For the record: It’s been widely reported that the @washingtonpost laid off the equivalent of a third of its newsroom last week. Terrible enough, but this appears to understate what happened.  More…

Memo: WaPo won't send sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy, as it assesses financial priorities for 2026, following reports of expected layoffs (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo<…

Washington Post Cancels On-Site Winter Olympics Coverage Ahead of Expected Layoffs
Managing Editor Kimi Yoshino says the decision to not send reporters to the Games comes after assessing financial priorities.

Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-bi…

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

An anonymous WaPo Metro staffer who was just laid off says there are now just ~12 people left on the desk, down from more than 40 (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699328/washington-post-layoffs-jobs-bezos

Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000 ; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (Palmer Luckey/@palmerluckey)
https://x.com/palmerluckey/status/2013099842529005912

Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The "Meta is

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Sources: before the layoffs, a group of wealthy DC locals asked Will Lewis whether WaPo would sell them its local and sports sections, but never got an answer (Jon Passantino/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-jeff-bezos-ownership-sell

Conflict of Disinterest
Jeff Bezos was once hailed as the ideal billionaire steward of a newspaper—but his recent actions have made clear that it’s time for him to sell The Washington Post.

A WaPo newsroom source says senior management was livid that Will Lewis attended Super Bowl festivities as news of layoffs broke, adding, "Bezos lost patience" (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/146e2dc…

A US judge rules Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the USAGM, as she was not Senate-confirmed, and her actions there must be seen as "void", even layoffs (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/kari-lake-usagm-judge-00818165

Sources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…

Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.

Sources: Starz lays off 7% of staff, 10 months after separating from Lionsgate; it laid off 10% of staff in 2023 (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/starz-layoffs-post-separation-lionsgate-1236761926/

Starz Lays 7% Of Staff 10 Months After Separation From Lionsgate
Starz has undergone a round of layoffs today, which impacted 7% of the company's employees.

Sources: NOTUS founder Robert Allbritton has discussed taking advantage of WaPo's layoffs to significantly expand the outlet into a full-scale operation (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2026/poli…

Exclusive: Politico founder plots new Washington newspaper war
A damaged Washington Post could face a big new challenger.

Nexstar lays off on-air staffers at LA's KTLA and New York's WPIX, after similar cuts at WGN in Chicago, as the company pursues a merger with Tegna (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/nexstar-layoffs-ktla-wpix-tegna-deal/

Nexstar lays off workers at KTLA, WPIX amid push for TEGNA merger
Nexstar Media Group has issued layoff notices to around a dozen on-air workers at television stations in the country's two biggest TV markets.

Sources: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray spiked a story prepared by the newspaper's media desk covering the historic layoffs (Natalie Korach/@nataliekorach)
https://x.com/nataliekorach/status/2019614374432825673

Natalie Korach (@NatalieKorach) on X
Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying https://t.co/5EbLMPEFlJ

WaPo terminated the contract of its Delhi bureau chief Pranshu Verma; a source says "there is no clarity if the paper will continue with its bureau in Delhi" (Aban Usmani/Newslaundry)
https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/02/05/what-the-murder-o…

What the ‘murder’ of Washington Post means for India
The Washington Post’s layoffs aren’t just an American media story. As foreign bureaus close and global coverage shrinks, countries like India lose one more watcher – and we’re reminded how fragile journalism becomes when it rests in the hands of billionaires.

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html

Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-bi…

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.