• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

Eater workers were shocked late last week when several were laid off, sharply cutting the Texas staff of the food website.

“Today, 15 members of the Vox Media Union working at Eater were notified without warning that their jobs were being eliminated as part of a major restructuring of the 20 year-old brand,” says a statement by the Vox Media Union Committees. 

“This is the second major round of layoffs at Eater this year, following a round earlier this year that decimated Eater’s award-winning cities network,” the union continues. 

It adds, “It is also a cowardly capitulation to the fallacious insistence that generative AI is the future of search and publishing.”  

A Vox Media spokesperson told D that “Eater is committed to operating all current Eater sites. In addition it will cover all topics “on the sites, on social platforms, via our newsletters, in the app, and more,” the spokesperson adds.