ABC News will be hit particularly hard, with the data-driven digital news brand 538 being shuttered, teams from Nightline and 20/20 being consolidated, and all three hours of Good Morning America moving under the same top producer, Simone Swink. The company is also merging its digital and social operations.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-abc-news-layoffs-538-shut-down-1236155190/
Symptoms of a much greater rot that has metastasized in the core of the org. At some point amputations aren't going to be enough. Yet a lot of people still live in denial in their ivory towers. Company is so big that some of these layoffs are so abstract at this point internally.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/disney-layoffs-abc-news-538/81596422007/
...The layoffs will affect under 200 employees, representing less than 6% of the total ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks workforce, the person said on Wednesday.
The company also plans to dissolve its 538 brand, a popular political polling website, and merge three shows: “20/20,” “Nightline” and “Impact x Nightline."
Staff members who were laid off were notified Wednesday, the person added. The majority of the laid-off employees work at ABC News, with most of them being based in New York....