Los Angeles Times Hands Out Layoff Notices, About 115 People Impacted

The Los Angeles Times has started to give layoff notices to employees today, as the publication grapples with financial struggles that has seen the departure of top leadership.

Matt Pearce, the president of Media Guild West, wrote on X/Twitter that 94 guild members were “being notified of intended layoff today, or about one-fourth of our whole membership.”

“This total, while devastating, is nonetheless far lower than the total number of Guild layoffs initially expected last week.”

Reporters started posting that they had received notices this morning.

A newsroom source said that a total of around 115 people would be impacted. The Times’ Meg James also reported that figure, which is about 20% of the newsroom. That is one of the largest workforce reductions in the paper’s history.

A Times spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment.

The guild staged a walkout last Friday to protest the cuts. On Monday, two more top editors resigned from the Times ahead of the new round of layoffs. Managing Editors Sara Yasin and Shani O. Hilton have exited less than two weeks after executive editor Kevin Merida stepped down from the paper.