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Layoffs At NBC News, And The Painful Math Behind The Versant Spinoff
- Recently, NBC News disbanded the dedicated teams that built its diversity verticals, ending units focused on marginalized communities including NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT.
- NBC News Group Chairman Cesar Conde described the changes as part of a strategic overhaul as NBCUniversal prepares to separate CNBC and MSNBC into Versant.
- About 150 employees were notified this week, with affected staff receiving 60 days' notice, severance and benefits, while sources say only about five staffers remain on those verticals.
- NBC says it will continue publishing stories for those audiences even after disbanding the dedicated teams, while social media questions its ability to maintain authentic representation and NBCUniversal News Group hires roughly 140 positions.
- These layoffs mirror industrywide reductions tied to dwindling ad revenues, affecting roughly seven percent of NBC News' newsroom and about two percent of the larger NBCU News Group.
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Total News Sources57
Leaning Left11Leaning Right16Center9Last UpdatedBias Distribution44% Right
Bias Distribution
- 44% of the sources lean Right
44% Right
L 31%
C 25%
R 44%
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