• by Ray Schultz , June 16, 2024

Two layoffs have hit the media industry in widely different areas.  

In one, PBS has laid off 24 people and eliminated seven vacant positions, according to a memo sent to the staff by PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger, according to E&P magazine.  

And, an unknown number of workers were facing loss of their jobs as Lee Enterprises closes its Winston-Salem, North Carolina printing plant, according to Triad Business Journal. The facility printed the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal. These will now be published in Virginia or Tennessee.  

At PBS, Kerger wrote that the layoff decision, “while difficult, was deemed essential to ensure the organization’s long-term sustainability and effectiveness.”