The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced it will lay off an estimated 10% of its workforce and cut some programming, adding to layoffs at Vice, Starz and TVA Group over the last month as a brutal series of closures and job losses rock the media industry in 2023.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced it will cut 600 jobs—an estimated 10% of CBC’s workforce—and 200 vacant positions, in addition to reduced English and French programming budgets that will result in fewer new television series and episodes of existing shows, as the public broadcaster addresses $125 million in “budget pressures” for the 2024 fiscal year.
Vice Media told staff it will end production for some of its shows and announced layoffs, which will impact “less than 100” employees, as the company—which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year—moves to “restructure our overall corporate organization,” according to CNN.
G/O Media will suspend the publication of Jezebel—a women’s culture and news magazine—and lay off 23 editorial employees, including Jezebel’s staff, according to an internal memo, after the company said its “business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s.”
Starz—a network and streaming platform that employs about 670 people—will cut more than 10% of staff and end operations in Australia and the U.K., according to an…
