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The Writers Guild of America called nan layoffs astatine CBS News connected Friday an illustration of nan “recklessness and greed of their bosses,” arsenic nan national indicated that its rank was impacted by nan occupation cuts.
The layoffs affected astir 6% of nan CBS News workforce of astir 1,100 employees, aliases 60 to 70 positions. One of nan biggest cuts was to CBS News Radio, which is being shuttered connected May 22, ending a work pinch origins making love astir 100 years to nan commencement of nan network. All of nan labor of nan power work are being laid off.
In a associated connection from nan WGA West and East, nan guilds said, “Once again, our members have lost their jobs owed to nan recklessness and greed of their bosses.”
“CBS News Radio is an institution, wherever generations of nan finest journalists successful nan state spent their careers reporting nan news and holding group successful powerfulness to account. The determination to simply shutter CBS News Radio is suggestive of Bari Weiss and David Ellison’s inept leadership.
“The dozens of CBS journalists laid disconnected coming person served nan American group done their talent and dedication. Given nan harm David Ellison has done to CBS News successful specified months, nan Ellison family must not beryllium permitted to get CNN aliases immoderate different captious news outlets.”
A CBS News spokesperson did not instantly return a petition for comment. Weiss is nan editor successful main of CBS News; Ellison is nan CEO of Paramount, nan genitor institution of nan network. Paramount precocious reached an statement for a $111 cardinal woody to bargain Warner Bros. Discovery, nan genitor of CNN, thing that has generated worry complete nan imaginable of further cuts fixed nan pending communal ownership of nan news outlets.
WGAE members who activity astatine CBS News 24/7 staged a 24-hour walkout earlier this week arsenic they property for a caller statement pursuing its expiration earlier this month.
