Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
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Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
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Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#2I wish they would axe the entire staff! I can't stand their style of "explanatory journalism".
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#3I wish they would axe the entire staff! I can't stand their style of "explanatory journalism".
To each their own. I love Vox. Their Weeds podcast has given me a whole new understanding of public policy and research papers in the social sciences.
They also do research on topics I didn't even know I wanted research on. For example, they did an entire article on Hallmark movies. Sounds super silly, but they turn out to be a huge money-maker. One of my friends works in the film industry and was working on pitching Hallmark movies. He was super excited about it, but I had no idea how big of a deal that was (or what it even meant exactly) until I read the Vox article.
Sure, they have a clear bias, but at least they're explicit about it and they do a fairly decent job of researching and presenting opposing points of view, not just setting up straw-mans. They've done some of the best journalism there is on things like US public health policies. Sarah Kliff's article https://www.vox.com/2019/1/24/18194709/emergency-room-fees-h... was impeccably researched and had a direct impact on health care legislation.
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#4didn't Vox got like $200 million from NBCUniversal? why not ask for another round of funding?
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#5The context is interesting:
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317812260499456
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317824394653697
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317820800086016
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248318363538837504
The same company that considerably increased the damage the virus did in their country is now in financial difficulty as a result. They mocked people for avoiding handshakes, repeatedly told people that masks were ineffective and dismissed the virus as just a flu.
It's also interesting their political opponents, including the president adopted their original positions a few weeks later.
It's mind-boggling that analysis of the severity of a virus became so highly politicized. I don't think the same could have happened in the US a generation ago.
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#6The context is interesting: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317812260499456 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317824394653697 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317820800086016 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248318363538837504 The same company that considerably increased the damage the virus did in their country is now in financial difficulty as a result. They mocked people for avoiding handshake…
First tweet: Vox saying face masks aren't the best way to avoid Coronavirus. Actually basically the mainstream view in the US at the time, and still arguable. Note how right now the states aren't mandating masks, they're mandating social isolation.
Second tweet: Vox factually reporting the tech industry is eschewing handshakes. Tweet author editorialises that Vox is telling them not to.
Third Tweet: Vox factually reporting that tech companies are providing 9million masks. Factually states that it's not enough to solve the problem. Tweet author contends that's not true - but provides no evidence .
Fourth tweet: Author tries to claim Vox is responsible for Coronavirus.
I find this hilarious, because we all know perfectly well, if that tweeter had found a Vox contributer tweeting that 4th tweet he'd be apoplectic.
I'm sure this tweet thread has nothing to do with Vox's coverage of that tweeter and his previous attacks on the FDA: https://www.vox.com/2017/1/14/14276530/balaji-srinivasan-tru...
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#7I think this is basically par for the course for media organisations. Let's face it, ad spend is gone and it's not going to be coming back for a while. I suspect we'll be see a lot more of this coming in the near future.
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#8The context is interesting: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317812260499456 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317824394653697 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317820800086016 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248318363538837504 The same company that considerably increased the damage the virus did in their country is now in financial difficulty as a result. They mocked people for avoiding handshake…
I would say don't use the news that lots of people are losing their jobs at News Outlet X to say News Outlet X is a bad news outlet. Feels opportunistic at best.
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#9I wish they would axe the entire staff! I can't stand their style of "explanatory journalism".
Come on man, let's avoid hoping for people to lose their jobs.
Re: Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
#10I don't have any opinions here but for added context and interest, the two unions involved released statements:
NY Mag Union statement on the cuts: https://twitter.com/NYMagUnion/status/1251218401688772608
Vox media union on the cuts: https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1251174537120616454
> While we appreciate Vox Media talking to us in good faith, we don’t agree with the company’s decision to furlough employees — especially after hundreds of us told the company we were willing to take wider pay cuts to save all jobs.
> We won a guarantee of no layoffs, no additional furloughs, and no additional pay cuts through July 31, along with enhanced severance for any layoffs that occur in August-December. The company also agreed to reduce the number of furloughs.