LA Times to lay off 20% of newsroom in newspaper's largest staff reduction

[ctoth]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/23/los-angeles-times-layoff-notices/7e49e1f0-ba29-11ee-b176-fe5fd794e716_story.html

[artninja1988]

So far most of the justification for mass layoffs recently has been that this is a correction from over-hiring during the pandemic. Is this also the case for newspapers?

[great_psy → artninja1988]

I suspect newspapers are on a downward trajectory and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. I think most people are consuming the articles through some middle service like Facebook, and many people don’t bother to read more than a few lines.

So really you end up with very few ads to display to customers.

[goles]

https://archive.is/MqUY1

[hindsightbias]

So when there are no editors, what do conspiracies say about who will control the message?

[klyrs → hindsightbias]

The lack of AI-centric conspiracy theories is so thick, you couldn't even cut it with a knife.

[gruez → hindsightbias]

>what do conspiracies say about who will control the message?

the writers themselves, who are ideologically aligned and want to push a certain narrative.