It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
The left-leaning National Public Radio, NPR, is making cuts because, well, nobody’s listening. This is despite huge subsidies from the government.
Washington-based NPR said it would lay off about 7 percent of its workforce and eliminate two daily programs produced out of its facilities in Culver City, Calif. The shows are “Day to Day,” which was aimed at younger listeners, and the newsmaker-interview program “News & Notes,” which NPR hoped would attract African Americans.
The cutback of 64 of NPR’s 889 employees is designed to close a $23 million shortfall in the operation’s current fiscal year, Dennis Haarsager, NPR’s interim president and chief executive, said in an interview. The cuts will affect all departments, including reporters, producers, researchers and digital media employees.
Newsweek plans to cut staff, redesign its magazine to be “slimmer,” and cut the number of copies they guarantee their advertisers that they will sell. Sounds like a death knell for me.
Newsweek magazine is planning staff cuts as part of a major editorial makeover likely to result in a slimmer publication, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people close to the magazine.
The cuts are expected to be outlined in two companywide meetings on Thursday, and will come from an extension of voluntary redundancies offered in the spring, when Newsweek shed 111 jobs, the paper said.
