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5 lessons from being laid off

On media cutbacks.

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Chris Cillizza
Oct 26, 2023
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Earlier this month, the Washington Post announced that it was going to eliminate 240 jobs, largely because of overly optimistic projections about its growth and revenue.

This news was hardly an isolated incident.

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As of June, the media industry had cut more than 17,000 jobs in 2023 alone, t…

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