What is the likelihood of Viacom layoffs in New York in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.
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More layoffs forthcoming. Those is the DC corporate office have been WARNED their last day will be December 31, 2015. There will only be 40 survivors remaining afterwards. Plan is for BET - DC to close down its entire campus.
Susan Levison EVP at vh1 is out. Wonder who is next.
Layoffs are rolling with small spurts and isolated people. Viacoms year starts in october not january so no real momentum behind a date of january. Rumored mass exodus after bonus payout in mid november. Anyone who has an exit will take it. HR is apparantly worried about people leaving probably because viacoms reputation is so bad right now. Tough to fill jobs when the media is trashing viacom every day in the press.
this ongoing strategy of the newspaper-as-tv is increasingly dubious to me. i can only speak for myself, but when i look at a digital news site, i am looking for the substance of a news story, not some accompanying video the narration of which often repeats verbally what has been written. in other words, i do not seek out information on a digital news site BECAUSE of the video that might or might not be there. i wonder how many do. i want the substance of a news or feature story whether there is video or not. and if a topic of interest to me is well written and void of numerous typos that all too often exist in sloppily produced digital stories, all the better. these severe newsroom cuts diminish what news sites can provide, and readers know it. more than once i have seen reader comments about the reduced quality of the news that interests them. it seems that the old adage "quality sells" is rapidly fading as a marketing strategy.
i recently stumbled across a lengthy story about the brief history of The National sports newspaper. i couldn't stop reading, and the accompanying still photos sufficed quite nicely. it did not need some gratuitous infomercial-style video to hold my interest.