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Management at the Los Angeles Times plans to lay off almost 100 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure, including dozens of journalists who belong to the newspaper’s union. Matt Pearce, a reporter at the LA Times and president of Media Guild of the West, wrote on Tuesday the newspaper’s leadership had informed him that…
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The layoffs represent the biggest newsroom reduction since the biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the company in 2018.
The Los Angeles Times plans to lay off 94 newsroom employees — one-fourth of its newsroom staff — starting Tuesday, a number that is substantial but less than feared, the head of the journalists union said. 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. Matt Pearce, president of the Media Guild of the West, which encompasses the Times' union, called it a “dark day.”
The paper's owner, biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said the loss of 115 workers was necessary.