这家最大的报纸连锁公司正在裁减其3440人的美国媒体部门约6%的股份。

甘尼特是美国最大的报业连锁公司，拥有《今日美国》、《印第安纳波利斯之星》和《底特律自由报》。周四，该公司员工开始收到裁员通知

美国最大的报业连锁公司甘尼特（Gannett）周四开始了另一轮裁员，加入了最近几周大量其他媒体公司裁员的行列。

Gannett旗下包括《今日美国》、《印第安纳波利斯之星》和《底特律自由新闻报》在内的报纸的员工周四开始收到裁员通知，这是该公司削减约3440人的美国媒体部门6%的努力之一。

通知的消息在Gannett员工中迅速传播。在《今日美国》，记者们收到了员工日历上的邀请，参加与编辑和人力资源代表的会议。

此次裁员是甘尼特公司一系列削减成本措施中的最新一次。甘尼特在8月份取消了约400个职位，并表示不会填补数百个空缺职位。10月，甘尼特首席执行官迈克·里德（Mike Reed）告诉员工，该公司将提供自愿买断，并要求员工休无薪假。

11月中旬，甘尼特旗下英国媒体集团Newsquest的首席执行官亨利·福雷·沃克（Henry Faure Walker）向员工发送了一封电子邮件，他警告称，该公司“无法免受许多行业和公司面临的经济状况的影响”

沃克写道：“虽然我们已经采取了一些措施，但我们必须以更强劲的经济形势进入新的一年，而现实是，我们的新闻成本基础目前太高，无法产生收入。”。“遗憾的是，这意味着我们将实施进一步的削减。”

同样在上个月，甘尼特传媒总裁玛丽贝尔·沃兹沃斯·佩雷斯（Maribel Wadsworth Perez）宣布，她将于今年年底离开公司，并告诉员工，她计划花时间“喘口气，优先考虑我的家庭”

近年来，由于印刷报纸的收入持续减少，甘尼特一直在与股价下跌作斗争。该公司试图通过数字订阅收入和营销服务来抵消印刷业务的下滑，但由于广告市场困难，今年的收入有所下降。

最近几周，随着广告市场的恶化，许多媒体和科技公司纷纷裁员。

华特迪士尼公司（Walt Disney Company）在11月表示，将裁员并冻结招聘，此前该公司报告其流媒体部门出现了“峰值亏损”。周三，《华盛顿邮报》告诉员工，它将关闭独立的周日印刷杂志，导致大约10人失业。美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）也在裁员，此前高管们讨论了削减1亿美元的业务。

来源：纽约时报

链接：https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/business/media/gannett-layoffs.html

编辑：吴漫

原文：

Gannett Starts Another Round of Staff Cuts

The largest newspaper chain is cutting roughly 6 percent of its 3,440-person U.S. media division.

Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, owns USA Today, The Indianapolis Star and the Detroit Free Press. Its employees began receiving layoff notices Thursday. Credit...Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock

Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, began another round of layoffs Thursday, joining a host of other media companies cutting jobs in recent weeks.

Employees at Gannett’s newspapers, which include USA Today, The Indianapolis Star and the Detroit Free Press, began receiving layoff notifications Thursday, part of an effort to cut about 6 percent of the company’s roughly 3,440-person U.S. media division.

Word of the notifications spread quickly among Gannett employees. At USA Today, journalists received invitations on their employee calendars to join meetings with editors and human resources representatives.

The layoffs are the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures by Gannett, which in August eliminated about 400 jobs and said it would not fill hundreds of open positions. More spending cuts were announced in October, when Gannett’s chief executive, Mike Reed, told employees that the company would offer voluntary buyouts and require workers to take unpaid leave.

The latest cuts were signaled in a mid-November email to employees from Henry Faure Walker, chief executive of Gannett’s British media group Newsquest, who warned that the company was “not immune to the economic conditions many industries and companies are facing.”

“While we have taken several steps already, we must enter the new year in a stronger economic position, and the reality is that our news cost base is currently too high for the revenues it generates,” Mr. Walker wrote. “Regretfully, this means we will be implementing further reductions.”

Also last month, Maribel Wadsworth Perez, the president of Gannett Media, announced that she was leaving the company at the end of the year, telling employees she planned to take time to “catch my breath and prioritize my family.”

Gannett has battled a sagging share price in recent years as revenue from printed newspapers has continued to wane. The company has sought to offset the declining print business with digital subscription revenue and marketing services, but revenue has declined this year amid a difficult ad market.

Many media and tech companies have laid off employees in recent weeks as the advertising market sours.

The Walt Disney Company in November said it would cut jobs and freeze hiring, after the company reported “peak losses” in its streaming division. On Wednesday, The Washington Post told employees that it was shutting its stand-alone Sunday print magazine, resulting in about 10 layoffs. CNN is also in the middle of laying off workers after executives discussed cutting $100 million from the business.