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The Los Angeles Times has started to give layoff notices to employees today, as the publication grapples with financial struggles that has seen the departure…

Hundreds of unionized staffers at Conde Nast, the parent company behind legacy publications including Vogue and Vanity Fair, walked out Tuesday in protest of looming layoffs.The union urged people not to cross the digital picket line by refraining from visiting Conde Nast sites, which also include GQ, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Architectural Digest and Teen Vogue.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times plans to lay off 94 newsroom employees — one-fourth of its newsroom staff — starting Tuesday, a number that is substant

The announcement comes after the LA Times Guild walked off the job last Friday to protest the imminent layoffs, the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history.

The union said cuts fell disproportionately on Black, Latino and Asian employees.

The Los Angeles Times said Tuesday that it was cutting at least 115 jobs — or more than 20% of its 500-person newsroom — marking one of the largest workforce reductions in the newspaper's 142-year-old history.

The cuts, announced on this week, will reportedly see the newsroom shrink by 20 per cent

It was described as a "dark day" for the 142-year-old newspaper, which has faced steep financial losses.

The Los Angeles Times plans to lay off 94 newsroom employees

Young journalists of color ‘disproportionately affected’, with many Black, Asian American and Latino staffers laid off, Times guild says