Vox Media says it's furloughing around 9% of its workforce for three months starting on May 1, according to a staff email obtained by NPR. Several of those furloughs are hitting its flagship sports blog SB Nation.
said via Twitter that it fought for no staff cuts to take place, and helped ensure that no furloughed employees would lose their health insurance. The union said hundreds of staffers across the organization offered to cut their own pay to save jobs, but Bankoff noted in his email that furloughs were financially unavoidable.
Plenty of furloughed staff members at SB Nation praised each other's work in the wake of the company's move. Editor Alex Kirshner tweeted that his co-worker Ricky O'Donnell is"one of the great bloggers in world history. I don't even care about the Bulls but his blogs about their front office are appointment reading because that kind of fine-pointed destruction is nutritious.
If you're looking for help with anything over the next few months, my DMs are open here and I'm at [email protected]. You should also know about my coworkers, who are the only reason any of you know me or care about anything I do. Please let me tell you about themOther sports outlets across the country are also hurting because of the coronavirus crisis. Two weeks ago,
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