Many of those affected by BuzzFeed’s latest round of layoffs have been taking to Twitter this morning to share the unhappy news.
The company confirmed Wednesday it planned to lay off 15% of its workforce, or about 200 people, including many news staffers. In a memo to employees on Wednesday, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said the company would offer specifics about job eliminations by “Monday at the latest,” but today appears to be the leading edge of the cuts.
The timing of the layoffs is far from ideal for the digital outlet. After initially gaining traction with superficial fare like listicles and quizzes, BuzzFeed has aggressively beefed up its investigative reporting capabilities. It made waves with the publication of the so-called “Russian dossier” last year and this month a bombshell report that President Donald Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. (The news was provocative enough...
The company confirmed Wednesday it planned to lay off 15% of its workforce, or about 200 people, including many news staffers. In a memo to employees on Wednesday, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said the company would offer specifics about job eliminations by “Monday at the latest,” but today appears to be the leading edge of the cuts.
The timing of the layoffs is far from ideal for the digital outlet. After initially gaining traction with superficial fare like listicles and quizzes, BuzzFeed has aggressively beefed up its investigative reporting capabilities. It made waves with the publication of the so-called “Russian dossier” last year and this month a bombshell report that President Donald Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. (The news was provocative enough...
- 1/25/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Producer-writer Bonnie Garvin has acquired the rights to the real-life story of journalist Hannah Allam's experience covering the Iraq War.
The story centers on Allam's quest to save the life of her interpreter, Ban Sarhan, and Sarhan's newborn son. Sarhan accompanied Allam while on assignment in the war-torn country in 2003. When Iraqi insurgents discovered that Sarhan was working for a U.S. media company, they murdered her husband, 4-year-old daughter and mother-in-law.
Allam, unable to get assistance from the U.S. government to protect Sarhan and her infant son, set out on her own to smuggle the two out of the country, an endeavor that proved successful.
Garvin, who learned of the story from an article in Glamour magazine, will produce.
"These young women went through one of the most horrific experiences anybody could go through, and yet out of that came this incredibly positive outcome," Garvin said.
Garvin's credits include The Killing Yard. She also served as a writer on The Ernie Goodman Story distributed by Warner Bros....
The story centers on Allam's quest to save the life of her interpreter, Ban Sarhan, and Sarhan's newborn son. Sarhan accompanied Allam while on assignment in the war-torn country in 2003. When Iraqi insurgents discovered that Sarhan was working for a U.S. media company, they murdered her husband, 4-year-old daughter and mother-in-law.
Allam, unable to get assistance from the U.S. government to protect Sarhan and her infant son, set out on her own to smuggle the two out of the country, an endeavor that proved successful.
Garvin, who learned of the story from an article in Glamour magazine, will produce.
"These young women went through one of the most horrific experiences anybody could go through, and yet out of that came this incredibly positive outcome," Garvin said.
Garvin's credits include The Killing Yard. She also served as a writer on The Ernie Goodman Story distributed by Warner Bros....
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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