CNN staff 'scared and frustrated' about looming layoffs
CNN staffers have been left 'scared and frustrated' after hearing the struggling network will undergo budget cuts and layoffs. Stars including Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have reportedly been denied raises on their multi-million-dollar salaries as the biggest names on the network fear for their futures. A longtime CNN employee told Fox News that after news of the layoffs spread, staff across the company are left feeling 'very sad and deeply frustrated.' 'Feelings which are pervasive throughout the organization among those who have been here a long time and feel a deep personal connection to having helped build the organization,' the anonymous staffer added.
News of CNN's budget cuts and layoffs first spread after an explosive report from Puck News, warning that network executives are set to take drastic action to save the company's flailing reputation. Although there is no mention of who may be on the chopping block, it is feared that the cuts could hit everyone from low-level staff to those such as Cooper and his $20million-a-year salary. 'In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across the organization,' reporter Dylan Byers wrote Friday, referencing CNN's recent 100-person layoff seen over the summer.The fresh round of firings, the insiders said, will be more geared toward the production side of things.
Sources added to Fox News that the layoffs would be implemented 'by March' and they would include 'very meaningful' names to the rest of the staff at the company. 'It's a time of a complete and utter business model overhaul and chaos. Extremely difficult even under the best circumstances,' they added. A second CNN staffer told the outlet that they blame CEO Mark Thompson for the move, after he took the helm at the company just over a year ago and was immediately clear in his intention to change their approach. 'I am worried because the industry is obviously in trouble... I'm sure there will be cuts,' the second insider said.
Amid rumors the cuts will hit CNN's most expensive shows, the staffer suspected 'more shows will be streamlined and produced out of Atlanta' to cut down on costs. Disgruntled workers fear they may be expected to pick up the slack of their fired former co-workers, and Puck News reported how on-air workers will be 'asked to assume more of the responsibilities once handled by teams of producers and production assistants.' 'Redundant assignments will be nixed, and various divisions will be reduced or even eliminated.'Some of the on-air talents are also likely to be affected,' the bombshell report warned.
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appeared to be to destroy the network from within. It now appeals to no one. The right
never left the Fox and worst universe and it has become intolerable to the
left and moderates. Who is left to watch?
I think that was the plan to slowly shrink it into non-existence.
... Jake is okay, but Wolf! Blitzer isa major turn-off, for me. I developed an aversion during the Bush-Iraq wars.
